Detailed Inventory
Contents
  Request Series
"Tables of perpetual use"
 p. 1-48Request Item
"To find the southing of a planet"
 p. 49-50Request Item
"...Circles of the sphere projected on the Meridian Stereographically" [Illus.]
 p. 52-53Request Item

General physical description: p. 52-53

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"Of the Stella Mira or Wonderfull Star in the Whale's Neck" [Illus.]
 p. 55-57Request Item
"Of the Retrogradation of the Planet Mars" [Illus.]
 p. 57-66Request Item
"To Draw a Meridian Line on a Horizontal plane by a style or needle set up at random" [Illus.]
 p. 67-70Request Item
"The construction of a quadrant" [Illus.]
 p. 72-75Request Item
"A View of the Transits of the planet Venus and Mercury over the Sun's Dick for the year 1761 to the year 1799"
 p. 76-77Request Item
"An Account of the Sun's Enlightening the planet Venus from Observations in the Year 1762" [from Waldron Hill; illustr.]
 p. 78-81Request Item
"To find the situation of all or any of Jupiter's Satellites at any time required" [Illus.]
 p. 81-84Request Item
"Concerning the appearance of a Comett"
 p. 84-85Request Item
"The Manner of Erecting a scheme or figure of the Heavens" [Illus.]
 p. 86-89Request Item
"Letter from Waldron Hill to [John] Dovaston, April 23, 1764"
 p. 89-92Request Item
"To find the Latitude of any place"
 p. 93Request Item
"Astronomical problems" [Illus.]
 p. 94-110Request Item
Perpetual calendars, etc.
 p. 112-121Request Item
"A short account of the Old Style [Gregorian calendar] with the reason given for the new"
 p. 122-123Request Item
"To find what time any fixed star will be upon the meridian"
 p. 123-124Request Item
"Description of eclipse of the Moon, July 30, 1776"
 p. 124-125Request Item
"A perpetual Almanac, by which may be found the day of the month in any year" [Illus.]
 p. 127-128Request Item
"Account of a Comet Observed by Mr. Walker of Gruston on the 18th Aug., 1797" [Shrewsbury Chronicle]
 p. 129Request Item
"John Freeman Millward Dovaston's nativity, calculated by Ed. Francis" [Illus.]
 p. 130-131Request Item


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