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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.

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

Observations of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 : (with one plate) / by C. G. Abbot and A. F. Moore.

M. ManilI Astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum : eivsdem Iosephi Scaligeri notæ, quibus auctoris prisca astrologia explicatur, castigationum caussæ redduntur, portentosæ transpositiones in eo auctore antiquitus commissæ indicantur.

A system of astronomy. : Containing the investigation and demonstrations of the elements of that science.

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.

Sphæra Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, emendata : Eliæ Vineti Santonis scholia in eandem sphæram, ab ipso auctore restituta : adiunximus huic libro compendium in Sphæram per Pierium Valerianuni Bellunensem, et Petri Nonii Salaciensis demonstrationem eorum, quæ in extremo capite de climatibus Sacroboscius scribit de inæquali climatum latitudine, eodem Vineto interprete.

An account of the late total eclipse of the sun, on July 28, 1851 : as observed at Lilla Edet in Sweden / by R.C. Carrington, Esq.

Astro-theology : or, A demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from a survey of the heavens / Illustrated with copper plates. By W. Derham.

Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, emendata : Eliae Vineti Santonis scholia in eandem Sphaeram, ab ipso authore restituta : Adiunximus huic libro compendium in Sphaeram, per Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem & Petri Nonij Salaciensis demonstrationem eorum : quae in extremo capite de climatibus Sacroboscius scribit de inaequali climatum latitudine : eodem Vineto interprete.

The Use of the sector in the construction of solar eclipses : wherein as a proper example is contained the construction of the great eclipse which will happen May 11, 1724 for London, Edenburgh [sic], Rome, and Genoa.

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