Life of James Ferguson, F. R. S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and Further Extended MemoirCambridge University Press, 2010年8月19日 - 530 頁 James Ferguson (1710-1776) was a Scottish self-taught astronomer, instrument maker and artist. Of humble background, he became a highly successful lecturer on experimental philosophy and science. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763, received a royal pension, and is particularly remembered as an inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus. These include a new type of orrery, clocks, and his astronomical rotula. His lectures and books were noted for their clear explanations for a general audience, and Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles and Made Easy for Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1756) was a bestseller. This autobiographical memoir, expanded by Ebenezer Henderson in 1867, also contains a full description of Ferguson's principal inventions, with many illustrations. |
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Fergusons Preliminary remarks Birth Mistakes the locality of | 1 |
In the Service of a Tippling Miller who left the whole charge of | 21 |
Lady Dipple takes Ferguson to Edinburgh giving him bed and board | 34 |
At Inverness for eight months taking Likenesses Ferguson Compares | 40 |
Professor Maclaurin gets Ferguson to Deliver a Lecture on the Wooden | 43 |
Published a Treatise entitled A Dissertation on the Phenomena of | 50 |
Orrery commenced to make a large wooden one The Moons Concave | 62 |
The Trajectorium Lunare Martin Folkes Esq and the Royal Society | 70 |
In the Service of Alexander Middleton as Shepherd Boy Began to Study | 258 |
Royal Pension to Ferguson Planetarium Astronomical Lectures | 263 |
Remarks Ferguson Applies for the Vacant Situation of Clerk to | 271 |
A New Crane invented by Ferguson Paper on the Great Solar Eclipse | 289 |
On the Quantity and Weight of Water in Pumps Table of Standard | 313 |
New Orrery Claudins Epigrammatic Lines on Archimedess Sphere | 320 |
Bath and Bristol Lectures Newspaper Advertisements Supplement | 338 |
The Young Gentleman and Ladys Astronomy published Electrical | 349 |
Projection of Great Solar Eclipse of July 14th 1748 published A Tract | 96 |
Wrote an Account of the Lever the Pulley the Wheel and Axle | 145 |
Perpetual Pocket Almanack Letter from Ferguson to Hugh Rose Esq | 154 |
Ferguson seemingly applies for some vacant situation Letter from | 166 |
At Norwich Astronomical Lectures and Publication of Brief Descrip | 180 |
Ferguson invented and made a large wooden Orrery The Mechanical | 206 |
Lectures and correcting proof sheets of Astronomy Death of Sir Dudley | 216 |
John Fergusons third son born Pyrometer A New Astronomical | 236 |
In Memoriam Lectures on Select Subjects published The Armillary | 246 |
Lectures at NewcastleonTyne Dr Hutton On the Area of a Circle | 359 |
Death of James Glashan Velocity of Falling Bodies and on the | 377 |
Projection of part of the Sphere Blind Mans Clock Projection of | 404 |
Astronomical Rotula and Tract Revival of the Kennedy Controversy | 444 |
Money Bequeathed to Ferguson Table of the Equation of Time | 452 |
Newspaper Obituary Notices Posthumous Detractor and Defenders Dr Houl | 459 |
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