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The description and use of the globes and the orrery
Joseph Harris
Before planetariums, a clockwork orrery and a pair of globes brought the heavens into the parlor. Joseph Harris explains the celestial and terrestrial globes and the mechanical solar system, teaching the equinoctial, the ecliptic, and the motions of the sky. A window into how our ancestors learned astronomy by hand. Turn the globes and set the planets wheeling.
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71 chapters
- 1THE Description and Use OF THE GLOBES, AND THE ORRERY.
- 2THE CONTENTS.
- 3THE INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING
- 4SECT. I.
- 5SECT. II.
- 6The DESCRIPTION and USE of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes.
- 7SECT. I.
- 8I. Of the Equinoctial.
- 9II. Of the Ecliptic.
- 10III. Of the Horizon.
- 11IV. Of the Division of Time.
- 12SECT. II.
- 13II. Of Zones and Climates, c.
- 14III. Of the Poetical rising and setting of the Stars.
- 15IV. Of the surface of the Earth, considered as it is composed of Land and Water.
- 16SECT. III.
- 17Problem I. To find the Latitude and Longitude of any given Place upon the Globe; and on the contrary, the Latitude and Longitude being given, to find the Place.
- 18Prob. II. To find the Difference of Latitude betwixt any two given Places.
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