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Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne / avec l'explication & l'usage de ces mêmes tables.

[Hērodotou Logoi ennea hoiper epikalountai Mousai] = Herodoti libri nouem, quibus musarum indita sunt nomina

A sermon occasion'd by the total eclipse of the sun, upon April the 22nd, 1715 / Joseph Burroughs.

The wonders of astronomy displayed in a popular exposition of the modern discoveries in that most interesting science : explaining the nebula hypothesis, the laws controlling the comets, zodiacal and northern lights, &c.

Matho : or, The cosmotheoria puerilis, a dialogue. In which the first principles of philosophy and astronomy are accomodated to the capacity of young persons, or such as have yet no tincture of these sciences / tr., and enl. by the author.

The original design of the ancient zodiacal and extra-zodiacal constellations, arranged on the present globes, which by their attitudes and positions prove the place of the summer solstice to have been in the middle of the goat, and the autumnal equinox in the ram : to which is added an account of the battle between Vicramaditya and Salavahana which arose from a combination of the precession and nutation of the earth's axis : also, further remarks on the long zodiac of Tantyra [sic].

A defence of the dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon : wherein is further shewn that that eclipse had no relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's Passion and Mr. Whiston's observations are particularly considered / by Arthur Ashley Sykes.

A new theory of the earth and of planetary motion in which is demonstrated that the sun is vicegerent of his own system : illustrated by 5 plates / by Sampson Arnold Mackey.

A dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon : or, An enquiry whether that eclipse had any relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's Passion / by Arthur Ashley Sykes.

Celestial scenery : or, The wonders of the planetary system displayed; illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds / by Thomas Dick.

Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt : 41 fein lithographierte Tafeln nebst erklärendem Texte und mehreren Text-Illustrationen : eine Astronomie für jedermann.

The cosmosphere, an instrument substituting an orrery, a planetarium, a tellurium, a lunarium, an armillary sphere, a celestial and a terrestrial globe, for self-instruction and for schools : with an appendix, on the use of a cosmosphere, of an orbograph, of a loxodromograph, and of a spherometer, instruments for calculating the latitude and longitude at sea / by W. Muller.

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