Laskarides, P.G., G.J. Odgers a. J.I. ClimenhagaAntiquariat.de
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A Succinct Treatise of Popular Astronomy: or That Science Made Plain Easy and Intelligible to Every Capacity. To which are Subjoined Prognostics of the Weather From the Sun Moon Stars Clouds Meteors &c. By a Lover of the Sciences.
17806577Edinburgh: Printed for the Author 1780. 12mo pp. 48 frontispiece. Extracted from a volume. Slightly spotted. A rare educational pamphlet published at the height of the Enlightenment of scientific discovery and philosophic discourse and pre-dating planetary discoveries including Uranus 1781. As such it only examines the Sun Mercury Venus Earth the Moon Jupiter and Saturn amongst other astronomical features like comets the weather stars and the Copernican System after refuting the Ptolemaic and Tychonian Systems. The frontispiece depicts the Copernican solar system. ESTC locates copies in Aberdeen NLS and BL only with Worldcat adding one more in Stanford. ESTC T70937. Printed for the Author unknown
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