Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive View, on a New Plan, of the General Principles of Astronomy, the Use of the ... of Problems, Than Are to Be Found in A - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive View, on a New Plan, of the General Principles of Astronomy, the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, Exemplified in a Greater Variety of Problems, Than Are to Be Found in Any Other Work; The Description and Use

Having proceeded so far in this work, I found that it was easy to render it subservient to my plan of publishing, from time to time, essays DE scribing the use or mathematical and phi losopiiical instruments; for the description of those which have been contrived to smooth the path to the science of astronomy, or to facilitate the prac tice of the arts depending on it, could no where he introduced with so much propriety, as in a work which treated of its elementary principles.

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