An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1792/5/8
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Record ID 40474
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16481 (1790-1816, Type: Town). Page: 2r
Ferguson's Exercises
Borrowed: 1792/5/8 (Tuesday). Original Borrowed Date: 8. Original Borrower: James Cairns.
James Cairns
Gender: Male.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles; and new tables, I. For expeditiously computing the Time of any new or full moon within the Limits of 6000 Years before and after the 18th Century. II. For graduating and examining the usual Lines on the sector, plain scale, and Gunter. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author. By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
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James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1773. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T146642
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials
Borrowed: 1792/5/8 (Tuesday).
Borrower: James Cairns
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials