The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar systemHarris, Joseph
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The description and use of the globes and the orrery: To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system
Harris, Joseph
Astronomical models; Globes
Ditto, with Vertical arch, Spirit Levels, }
Telescope, _&c._ from 10l. 10s. to } 21 0 0
Plain Tables, from 3l. 3s. to 5 5 0
Circumferentors, the principal Instrument for }
Surveying in the West-Indies, from 1l. 16s. to } 3 13 6
Gunter’s four pole chains, from 6s. to 0 12 0
Spirit Levels of all sorts, from 5s. to 12 12 0
Pentographia, for the ready and exact }
reduction or copying of Schemes, }
Drawings, Prints, _&c._ } 4 14 6
Measuring Wheels for Surveying, }
from 4l. 14s. 6d. to } 6 6 0
Hadley’s Quadrants, with Diagonal Divisions 1 14 0
Ditto, with a Nonius, from 2l. 2s. to 3 13 6
Ditto, all in Brass, from 3l. 13s. 6d. to 6 6 0
Davies’s Quadrant, from 12s. to 1 1 0
Cole’s ditto, from 18s. to 1 5 0
Sutton’s ditto 0 6 0
Gunter’s ditto, from 3s. 6d. to 1 1 0
Horizontal Sun Dials, for all Latitudes, }
from 5s. to } 10 0 0
Ring Dials, from 10s. 6d. to 21 0 0
Azimuth Compasses, from 5l. 5s. to 10 0 0
Amplitude ditto, from 1l. 7s. to 5 5 0
Mariner’s Compasses, either for the Cabin, }
or Binacle, from 7s. 6d. to } 3 13 0
Pocket Compasses, from 1s. to 1 11 6
Large Orreries, from 50l. to 250 0 0
Armillary Spheres, from 12l. to 50 0 0
Seventeen inch Globes 6 6 0
Fifteen inch ditto 5 5 0
Twelve inch ditto 3 3 0
Nine inch ditto 2 2 0
Six inch ditto 1 16 0
Three inch ditto, in a case, from 8s. to 0 10 0
Large double Barrell’d standing air pumps 25 0 0
Apparatus to ditto, from 3l. 3s. to 12 12 0
Double Barrell’d table air pumps, }
with their apparatus, from 5l. 15s. 6d. to } 20 0 0
Single Barrell’d ditto 2 12 6
Apparatus to ditto 2 2 0
Electrical Machines, in Brass, with apparatus, }
box, _&c._ from 5l. 5s. to } 13 13 0
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