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1770 fourth edition rebound on leather boards printed for W. Strahan & Jand F Riveington MDCCLXX. ASTRONOMY Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics. to Which Are Added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun's with fold outplan of the ORRERY as fontispiece plate + nemrous other fold outs throughout book.

Book. Octavo, 503 pages. In Good condition. Fully bound in contemporary leather. Early leather repair covering spine and parts of boards. Spine brown without lettering. Notable shelf wear and soiling to exteriors, prominently to edges and corners. Two worm holes to spine. Scratching to front panel near tail of spine. Mild agetoning and foxing to textblock exterior and interior. Binding tight. Minor water damage to tail corners of pages 401-430. Includes all 17 plates and folding astronomical charts in mostly Good condition. Plate two torn and detached. Plate 4 is labeled with incorrect roman numeral "IIII". Most plates tearing and hinges fragile. PB consignment. Shelved case 8 1/4. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378658. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Leather boards are cracked at spine edges; bumped hard at corners; rubbed bare at upper spine end; a fingernail moon hole at center of chipping back panel. Various signatures grace the endpapers & title page; notes & calculations on some pages; 19 foldouts are operational & sharp; text is readable despite foxing throughout. Protected in mylar sleeve.

Book. Octavo, 503 pages. In Good condition. Fully bound in contemporary leather. Early leather repair covering spine and parts of boards. Spine brown without lettering. Notable shelf wear and soiling to exteriors, prominently to edges and corners. Two worm holes to spine. Scratching to front panel near tail of spine. Mild agetoning and foxing to textblock exterior and interior. Binding tight. Minor water damage to tail corners of pages 401-430. Includes all 17 plates and folding astronomical charts in mostly Good condition. Plate two torn and detached. Plate 4 is labeled with incorrect roman numeral "IIII". Most plates tearing and hinges fragile. PB consignment. Shelved case 8 1/4. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378658. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1? 4 × 11+1? 2 210 × 292) pp. 292. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good-Original Calf boards, rubbed and scuffed. Binding and text block firm. Fold-outs present as called for. Previous owner markings on FEP, some browning of end papers front and rear. Text block pages bright and clean. Please see photos as part of condition report 1757 2nd Edition, ASTRONOMY EXPLAINED UPON SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S PRINCIPLES and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics By James Ferguson James Ferguson (25 April 1710 – 17 November 1776) was a Scottish astronomer. [1] He is known as the inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, as a striking instance of self education and as an itinerant lecturer. Illustrated By: James Ferguson / J. Mynde J. Mynde Born: 1702-Died: 1771, a British Old Masters artist Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Printed for the author, at the Globe, opposite Cecil Street in the Strand, London Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1? 4 × 11+1? 2 210 × 292), Pages 292 ISBN: 1st Edition 1956. James Ferguson was a Scottish astronomer who, despite never receiving formal training, became famed for his travelling lectures and easy-to-understand works on the basics of astronomy. Ferguson learned mechanics at a very early age and developed an interest in stargazing while working as a shepherd in the Scottish highlands. These interests, as well as an innate skill for draughtsmanship, were encouraged by his father and others but due to lack of funds he was unable to pursue study at one of the major universities in Scotland. Nevertheless, he was able to use his skills to produce mechanical devices such as orreries (an early piece of equipment used to demonstrate the movements of the planets), clocks and globes and earned a steady living painting portrait miniatures with India ink. This book on astronomy was the first major work by Ferguson and earned him an immediate scientific reputation, resulting in his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763. It provides easy-to-follow illustrated instructions on the workings of an orrery and simply describes the movements of the planets, the timings of eclipses and the discoveries of other astronomers such as Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley. This was a remarkably useful enterprise: it allowed ordinary people without formal mathematical training to understand the works of Newton and helped support the vogue for amateur astronomy that was taking place in the mid eighteenth century. Ferguson travelled the country giving popular lectures on astronomy and followed the work with several others along similar themes in the 1760s and 1770s until his death in 1776. SKU: BTETM0002379 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg.