[Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celestial charts, and a world map]
cartographic
map
cartographic image
Celestial charts.
Armillary spheres.
dcu
1769
monographic
[no earlier than 1769]
eng
fre
lat
9 maps on 1 sheet : hand colored ; 35 x 20 cm or smaller, sheet 56 x 66 cm
Le globe celeste -- Sisteme de Coprenic, de Ticho Brahe, et de Descartes -- Mappe Monde ou description generale du globe Terrestre / suivant Mr. de Lisle de l'Academie royale des sciences -- Machina ingenioso artifice extructa, ope et industria Bernardi a Cloese restituta, Europae admiratio -- Sphaera artificialis, seu armillaris -- La sphere artificielle -- De Hemel Globe -- [Handwritten title, covering article and two diagrams] A new method of constructing sun-dials for any given latitude without the assistance of dialing scales, or logarithmic calculations / by James Ferguson F.R.S.
Title devised by cataloger.
James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769.
Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yellow. From various sources, unidentified except for the Ferguson article.
Mounted on cloth and stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 312A.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
English, French and Latin.
Scales differ.
Ptolemy,
active 2nd century
Copernicus, Nicolaus,
1473-1543
Brahe, Tycho,
1546-1601
Descartes, ReneĢ,
1596-1650
Sundials
Sundials
Design and construction
Sundials
Early works to 1800
Armillary spheres
Early works to 1800
Celestial sphere
Early works to 1800
Spherical astronomy
Universe
G3190 1769 .C6
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3190.ct003797
Ferguson's method of constructing sun dials
Ferguson, James,
1710-1776
2013593153
hdl:loc.gmd/g3190.ct003797
rda
DLC
130408
20140110170248.0
17689579
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