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    The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery: To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System
    The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery: To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System
    The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery: To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System
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    The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery: To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System

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    An accomplished mathematician and astronomer, Joseph Harris describes how to use globes and orreries to solve astronomical equations as well as gives us an overview of the solar system. As one of the first modern era textbooks on the use of globes and astronomy in general, this work is highly regarded by scientists and mathematicians alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN4066338074713
    The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery: To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System

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      The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery - Joseph Harris

      Joseph Harris

      The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery

      To Which is Prefix'd, by Way of Introduction, a Brief / Account of the Solar System

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4066338074713

      Table of Contents

      THE CONTENTS.

      THE INTRODUCTION , CONTAINING

      SECT. I.

      SECT. II.

      The DESCRIPTION and USE of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes .

      SECT. I.

      SECT. II.

      II. Of Zones and Climates , &c.

      III. Of the Poetical rising and setting of the Stars.

      IV. Of the surface of the Earth, considered as it is composed of Land and Water.

      SECT. III.

      The DESCRIPTION of the Great Orrery , lately made by Mr. Thomas Wright , Mathematical Instrument-Maker to his late Majesty , and now by Benjamin Cole , his Successor .

      Of the Motions of the Planets in general.

      Of the Stations and Retrogradations of the Planets.

      Of the Stations , &c. of the Inferior Planets.

      Of the Annual and Diurnal Motion of the Earth, and of the increase and decrease of Days and Nights.

      Of the Phases of the Moon, and of her Motion in her Orbit.

      Of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.

      Of the Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter.

      AN INDEX OF THE Astronomical Terms Made Use of in this BOOK.

      THE CONTENTS.

      Table of Contents

      The

      Introduction

      : Containing a brief Account of the Solar System, and of the Fixed Stars.

      The

      Description

      and

      Use

      of the

      Celestial

      and

      Terrestrial Globes

      .

      THE

      INTRODUCTION,

      CONTAINING

      Table of Contents

      A Brief Account of the

      Solar System

      , and of the

      Fixed Stars

      .

      SECT. I.

      Table of Contents

      Of the Order and Periods of the Primary Planets revolving about the Sun; and of the Secondary Planets round their respective Primaries.

      Planets.

      The

      Sun is placed in the midst of an immense space, wherein six opaque spherical bodies revolve about him as their center. These wandering globes are called the Planets, who, at different distances, and in different periods, perform their revolutions from West to East, in the following order:

      1. ☿ Mercury is nearest to the Sun of all the planets, and performs its course in about three months. 2. ♀ Venus in about seven months and a half. 3. ♁ The Earth in a year. 4. ♂ Mars in about two years. 5. ♃ Jupiter in twelve. And lastly, ♄ Saturn, whose[1] Orbit includes all the rest, spends almost 30 years in one revolution round the Sun. The distances of the Planets from the Sun are nearly in the same proportion as they are represented in Plate 1. viz. Supposing the distance of the Earth from the Sun to

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