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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some ancient solar observations / by Edward G. Schauroth.

Globe notes / by R. Holland.

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.

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.

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