The frontispiece of the chronological automaton or self-moving ephemeris of ye. celestial motions, &c. Representing ye phaenomena at noon March 30: 1691 / invented and made by Samuel Watson ...
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The frontispiece of the chronological automaton or self-moving ephemeris of ye. celestial motions, &c. Representing ye phaenomena at noon March 30: 1691 / invented and made by Samuel Watson ...
Author
Watson, Samuel, of Coventry, watch-maker.
Publication
Oxford :: Printed at the theater. And sold by Ra. Simpson ... London. And at Coventry by the bookselers and author.,
[1691]
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Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
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"The frontispiece of the chronological automaton or self-moving ephemeris of ye. celestial motions, &c. Representing ye phaenomena at noon March 30: 1691 / invented and made by Samuel Watson ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B10271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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The Explication of the: 2d: Table
a The center Representing the Earth
kk &c The orbe of the Moon
ll &c The center of her Epicycle Shew∣ing her middle Motion
mm &c The Moon in her Epicycle Shew∣ing her apparent place in ye Zodiak her Apogaeon and perigaeon haue∣ing the Hemisphere next the Sun alwayes Illuminated Serving to Shew her Various phases &c
Two Circles one Representing the Eccliptick the other the Orbit of the moon with figures inclosed to shew the degrees of her Latitude
The North Node
The South Node
haueing their proper Motion
oo &c The Sun placed here the better to shew his Aspects with ye Moon and Ecclipses;
The Ecclipses, their quantitie, Dura∣tion and the parts of the earth which they are Visible in &c. are to be knowne by considering the Latitude of the Moon in her conjunction and opposition with the Sun and the Longitude and Latitude of the Respective places; the Rules for which are here for brevity Sake omited;
pp &c Remarkable Stars in their pro∣per Longitudes which are more Remote from the Eccliptick then those in the former table;
The other parts of this table are Sufficiently Explaind in the Former