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Select mechanical exercises, shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles : with several miscellaneous articles, and new tables, I. for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within the limits of 6000 years before and after the 18th century II. for graduating and examining the usual lines on the sector, plain scale, and gunter ... : to which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson
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CONTENTS.

A new Geometrical Method' of confruclingSun-Dials, - . - Page 95

A Description of the Hungarian Machinefor raising Water from Mines , - 102

Description of a Bump , invented by M. De-la-Hire, which raises Water equally quickby the Descent as by the Ascent of theBison in the Bump-B artel, - 109

The Height of the apparent Level abovethe true, at different Distances from theLevelling Instruments - - 115

Of the Velocities acquired by falling Bodies ,and the Spaces they fall through in dif-ferent Times, - - - 117

A Table shewing how much the Mercurywould fink in a Barometer at givenHeights above the Earth's plane Surface ;and consequently , how the Heights of Hillsmay be found thereby , - - 121

To divide the Area of a given Circle' intoany required Number of equal Tarts, byconcentric Circles , by Mr. Hutton, 123

To make two equal Circles, whose Areas ,taken together , shall be equal to the AreaAs of