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Description of a piece of mechanism contrived by James Ferguson, for exhibiting the time, duration, and quantity, of solar eclipses, in all places of the Earth

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The principal Parts of this machine (See Plate XIX.) are, 1. A terrestrial globe turned round, by a handle, on an axis inclined 23½ degrees.

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31 December 1753

Volume 48

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1753.0067
Published by:Royal Society
Print ISSN:0261-0523
Online ISSN:2053-9223

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Description of a piece of mechanism contrived by James Ferguson, for exhibiting the time, duration, and quantity, of solar eclipses, in all places of the Earth

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