A collection of geographical, astronomical, and astrological problems : corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society's of London and Paris ; also the Theory of the tides / from Sir Isaac Newton's Works ; likewise an attempt to assign the physical cause of the trade winds and mon

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A collection of geographical, astronomical, and astrological problems : corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society's of London and Paris ; also the Theory of the tides / from Sir Isaac Newton's Works ; likewise an attempt to assign the physical cause of the trade winds and monsoons / by Doct[o]r Edm[on]d Halley. 1723-1730.

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Holograph manuscript signed (1730) and written in 1723 and 1724 (cf. p. 491). Topics include the work of Flamsteed, Halley, Newton and Whiston, figuring the golden number and the domenical letter, calendars, the eclipses of 1715 and of 1725-40, and major rivers. Two pages in Latin.

45, 516 [i.e. 511] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

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Whiston, William, 1667-1752

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Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742

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Stearne, Robert.

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