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FERGUSON, JAMES. A Dissertation upon the Phaenomena of the Harvest Moon. Also the Description and Use of a New Four-Wheel'd Orrery,and an Essay upon the Moon's Turning Round Her Axis. 3 folding engraved plates. 72 pages. 8vo, modern leatherette with small paper shelf label on spine; lower outer corner torn off second plate with image loss, clean tear in the third plate. London: J. Nourse and S. Paterson, 1747
first edition of the second published work by a self-taught astronomer and instrument maker (1710-76). "His models of the planetary system were classics of engineering design whose accuracy far surpassed anything previously available"--DSB IV, 65. bound with: Michell, John. A Treatise of Artificial Magnets. Folding engraved plate. [2], 78 pages. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham for W. and J. Mount et al., 1751. Second edition of a work first published the year before, "in which he described the mode of making artificial magnets by 'double touch' and stated the law of variation of magnetic action according to the inverse squares of distances" (ODNB). DSB XI, 371; Wheeler 358a. and: Edwards, Richard. An Essay on the Longitude. Folding engraved plate. 35 pages. London: Printed in the Year 1749.
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