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RefNoL&P/2/481
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Of a mechanism for exhibiting the time, duration and quantity of solar sclipses' by James Ferguson
Date1754
DescriptionSubject: Astronomy/Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a piece of mechanism contrived by James Ferguson, for exhibiting the time, duration, and quantity, of solar eclipses, in all places of the Earth'

Read 21 February 1754
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1753.0067
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2399Ferguson; James (1710 - 1776)1710 - 1776
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