Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics

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Author: James Ferguson (1710-1776) Year: 1757 Publisher: Printed for, and sold by the author Place: London Description: [8]+283+[9] pages. Complete with frontispiece, 13 folding plates (as listed on final page), numerous tables, dedication, contents, errata, index, and directions to binder. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/2") bound in full leather re-backed in calf with raised bands and gilt-stamped spine, with fresh endpapers and red speckled edges. (ESTC T18585) Second edition. James Ferguson was a Scottish astronomer. He is known as the inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, as a striking instance of self education and as an itinerant lecturer. In 1748, Ferguson began to give public lectures on experimental philosophy, which he repeated in most of the principal towns in England. During his time traveling in England, the well known London bookseller Andrew Millar arranged lectures for him in the spa towns of Royal Tunbridge Wells and Bath. Ferguson's deep interest in his subject, his clear explanations, his ingeniously constructed diagrams, and his mechanical apparatus rendered him one of the most successful of popular lecturers on scientific subjects. Although not as well known nowadays, Ferguson was widely influential in his own time. Thomas Paine mentioned him in his publication The Age of Reason and William Herschel studied astronomy from his books. His international reputation was such that he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 17

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