Joseph Harris

The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A popular 1731 introduction to the solar system, with instructions on the use of globes and orreries for astronomical calculation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781108080187
• ISBN-10: 1108080189
• Artikelnr.: 41608562

Autorenporträt

Stories by Joseph Harris have appeared in Midwest Review, Moon City Review, Great Lakes Review, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Storm Cellar, and have received the Gesell, Tompkins, and Detroit Working Writers' Awards for fiction. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Wayne State University, and a BFA from Emerson College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Introduction: 1. Of the order, and periods of the primary
planets revolving about the sun, and of the secondary planets round their
respective primaries; 2. Of the fixed stars; Part II. The Description and
Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes: 1. An explanation of the
circles of the sphere, and of some astronomical terms arising therefrom; 2.
Geographical definitions; 3. The use of the globes; Part III. The
Description of the Orrery.