| Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...pursuits. Among other things, he discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, and drew up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and...the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually. He also made an orrery, without ever having seen the internal construction of any one. In the course... | |
| James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...Ferguson married Isabella Wilson, daughter of George Wilson, of the ue.igb louring |ttrisb of Grange. moon in the ecliptic on each day of the year perpetually, and consequently the days of all the new and full moons.59 To this I wanted to add a method for showing the eclipses of the sun and moon,... | |
| 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 814
...study of astronomy, regretting that he had neglected it so /' long. He contrived a scheme, on paper, for showing the motions and places of the sun and moon, in the ecliptic, on each day in the year, perpetually ; and, consequently, the days of all the new and full moons. To this, after... | |
| James Frederick Skinner Gordon - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...did at their last conjunction before. On this, I contrived and finished a Scheme on Paper for shewing the Motions and Places of the Sun and Moon in the...year, perpetually ; and consequently the days of all New and Full Moons. To this I wanted to add a method for shewing the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon ;... | |
| 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 830
...the first of those mathematical toys with which Ferguson 256 James Ferguson, the " Astronomer." 257 amused himself, and which established a sort of reputation...as to the days of the month, difference of time in different places, tides of high water, «fee. (fec. One of the Inverness ministers, with some pretensions... | |
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