Paper, 'Of a mechanism for exhibiting the time, duration and quantity of solar sclipses' by James Ferguson
Reference number: L&P/2/481
Date: 1754
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Subject: 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
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- L&P/2/481
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- 1754
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- 4 pages
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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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1753
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1753.0067
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