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406.007
Title: Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy : considered in its present state of improvement : describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature ...
Creator(s): Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824
Publication: 1806–1807.
Subjects: Science.


297.005
Title: Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1756]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Solar system -- Early works to 1800.


442.001
Title: Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens : by William Herschel, Esq. F.R.S. : read at the Royal Society, June 17, 1784.
Creator(s): Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822
Publication: [1784]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


380.054
Title: Notes on the state of Virginia : written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him respecting 1. Its boundaries - - - page 1 2. Rivers - - - - 3 3. Sea ports - - - - 27 4. Mountains - - - 28 5. Cascades and caverns - - 33 6. Productions mineral, vegetable and animal - 41 7. Climate - - - 134 8. Population - - - 151 9. Military force - - - 162 10. Marine force - - - 165 11. Aborigines - - - 166 12. Counties and towns - - 191 13. Constitution - - - 193 14. Laws - - - 235 15. Colleges, buildings, and roads - 275 16. Proceedings as to tories - - 285 17. Religion - - - 287 18. Manners - - - - 298 19. Manufactures - - - 301 20. Subjects of commerce - - 304 21. Weights, Measures and Money - 311 22. Public revenue and expences - - 313 23. Histories, memorials, and state-papers - 322
Creator(s): Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Publication: 1782–1784.
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Virginia. | Virginia.


297.004
Title: Astronomical tables and precepts, for calculating the true times of new and full moons, and shewing the method of projecting eclipses, from the creation of the world to A.D. 7800 : to which is prefixed, a short theory of the solar and lunar motions.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1763]
Subjects: Moon -- Tables -- Early works to 1800. | Solar system -- Early works to 1800. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Eclipses -- Early works to 1800.


442.053
Title: On the ring of Saturn, and the rotation of the fifth satellite upon its axis. With miscellaneous observations, &c.
Creator(s): Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822
Publication: [1792]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Planets -- Early works to 1800. | Satellites -- Early works to 1800. | Saturn (Planet)


297.023
Title: The young gentleman and lady's astronomy, familiarly explained in ten dialogues between Neander and Eudosia.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1768]
Subjects: Globes -- Juvenile literature. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Astronomy -- Juvenile literature.


442.042
Title: On the construction of the heavens : by William Herschel, Esq. F.R.S. : Read at the Royal Society, February 3, 1785.
Creator(s): Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822
Publication: [1785]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


230.020
Title: Tabulae aberrationis et nutationis in ascensionem rectam et declinationem insigniorum CCCLII stellarum : cum aliis tabulis eo spectantibus methodo facili omnibusque astronomis perquam utili in hunc ordinem digestae.
Creator(s): Mezger, Joannes
Publication: 1778.
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Stars -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. | Stars -- 18th century -- Observations.


297.022
Title: The use of a new orrery, made and described by James Ferguson.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1746]
Subjects: Astronomical models. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


327.003
Title: Description et usages de l'instrument equatoriale universel, ou l'Observatoire portatif : avec la micrometre objectif achromatique : tels qu'ils sont nouvellement perfectionnés par P. et J. Dollond, opticiens de sa Majesté, près de St. Paul, & Londres [London].
Creator(s): Dollond, Peter, 1730-1820
Publication: 1772.
Subjects: Micrometers (Instruments) -- Early works to 1800. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


230.018
Title: Solis et lunae eclipseos observatio astronomica ... facta Schwezingae in specula nova electorali anno 1764 diebus 17 martii et 1 aprilis comparata pluribus Europae celebrioribus observationibus ejusdemque clementissimi principis honoribus oblata quarto idus julii ejusdem anni.
Creator(s): Mayer, Christian, 1719-1783
Publication: 1764.
Subjects: Lunar eclipses -- 1764. | Solar eclipses -- 1764. | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


297.019
Title: Tables and tracts, relative to several arts and sciences.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1767]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Science -- Early works to 1800.


297.013
Title: An idea of the material universe, deduced from a survey of the solar system.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: [1754]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


106.008
Title: Two lectures on the parallax and distance of the sun, as deducible from the transit of Venus : read in Holden-Chapel at Harvard-College in Cambridge, New-England, in March 1769.
Creator(s): Winthrop, John, 1714-1779
Publication: [1769]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Venus (Planet) -- Observations -- Early works to 1800. | Sun -- Early works to 1800. | Venus (Planet) -- Transit -- 1769


317.007
Title: Astronomical observations made at the island of Barbados : at Willoughby Fort : and at the Observatory on Constitution Hill, both adjoining to Bridge Town.
Creator(s): Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811
Publication: [1765]
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.


297.011
Title: A dissertation upon the phænomena of the harvest moon : also, the description and use of a new four-wheel'd orrery, and an essay upon the moon's turning round her own axis.
Creator(s): Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Publication: 1747.
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Astronomical models. | Moon -- Rotation.


406.003
Title: Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics : to which are added, A plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc in the year 1761, [with] an account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639, and of the distances of all the planets from the sun as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761.
Creator(s): Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824
Publication: 1806.
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.