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James Ferguson's newspaper advertisements 1742-1776 / John R. Milburn. Millburn, John R. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 5(042.3)"17"

The Bishop of Salisbury's, the Bishop of Oxford's, the Bishop of Lincoln's and the Bishop of Norwich's speeches in the House of Lords on the ... impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell 1710 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:340.96Sacheverell

A plain method of determining the parallax of Venus by her transit over the sun... Ferguson, James, 1761 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 094:521.842

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles ... Ferguson, James, 1773 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:52

Select mechanical exercises : shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries and sun-dials on plain and easy principles : with several miscellaneous articles and new tables I. For expeditiously computing the time of any NEW or FULL MOON within the limits of 6000 years before and after the 18th century. II For graduating and examining the usual Lines on the SECTOR, PLAIN SCALE, and GUNTER. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author /by James Ferguson, F. R. S. Ferguson, James, 1773 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:51/52

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics : to which are added a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus ... 1761 and an account ... of the transit of Venus 1639 ... / Ferguson, James. Ferguson, James, 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52

Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics, with the use of the globes, the art of dialling and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses Ferguson, James, 1773 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:53

Note on a further portrait of James Short, F.R.S. / by D J Bryden Bryden, D J 1969 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 520.224

Olai Roemeri Triduum observationum astronomicarum : a MDCCVI. diebus m Oct. XX. usque ad XXIII. instituarum reductum et cum tabulis comparatum /ab I.G. Galle ; dissertatio inauguralis. Galle, Johann Gottfried, 1845. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 520:094

An introduction to electricity in six sections : illustrated with copper plates /by James Ferguson Ferguson, James, 1770 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51/52:094

Astronomical tables and precepts, for calculating the true times of new and full moons, and shewing the method of projecting eclipses, from the creation of the world to AD 7800.To which is prefixed, a short theory of the solar and lunar motions Ferguson, James, 1763 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics : with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses Ferguson, James, 1773 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52/53

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics : to which are added a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus ... 1761 and an account ... of the transit of Venus 1639 ... Ferguson, James, 1772 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52

The voyages and manifesto of William Fergusson, a surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739 / edited by Derek L. Elliott. "This volume brings to publication for the first time the manuscript of William Fergusson, a Scottish ship's surgeon who sailed for the East India Company in the 1730s. Written in 1767, while in retirement, Fergusson's diaries are the memories of his youth spent travelling the world during his apprenticeship. They detail the four voyages he took, the first, a passage from Scotland to England with a lading in Ireland, and three others to the East, calling at ports in the Atlantic, southern Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia, before reaching as far as China. Almost nothing is known of Fergusson and none of his other writings are known to survive. Remaining evidence suggests that he was an average man of his class, who travelled the well-plied trade routes of European merchant capitalism. While many logbooks of these voyages survive, comparatively few accounts were written by the men who sailed them. Fewer still ever come to light. Fergusson's manuscript offers a rare new source on what were by then the relatively routine voyages of the East India Company's early trading network, providing a treasure trove of comments on the politics, economics, societies, and religious beliefs and practices he witnessed along the way. Originally titled 'Journals of my Voyages & Manifesto', the name suggests Fergusson's manuscript offers far more than the insights usually contained in contemporary travelogues. In his manifesto, readers will discover Fergusson's impassioned polemics on natural religion, devotional 'enthusiasm', just governance, all while he implores the principles of rationality and reason. It is truly a manifesto of Enlightenment thought. As such, it also provides a unique example of how those who sailed for the East India Company during the early modern era participated in a global intellectual exchange of ideas. Fergusson wrote his private memories in twenty-two small bound booklets, all of which have been transcribed and annotated to guide the reader. These are presented here along with a critical introduction that contextualises the complex eighteenth-century world into which Fergusson voyaged, including elements of his role as a ship's surgeon, the Indian Ocean trading and political environment, and the ideas of the Enlightenment he so passionately expressed. Researchers interested in the histories of ideas, medicine, early-modern colonialism, maritime merchant empires, as well as historians of Africa and Asia, will find much new information to explore within the pages of this volume"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22HAKLUYT

La forge de vulcain : ou l'apareil des machines de guerre ... Saint Julien, Antoine de 1710 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:623.451

Lettera del signor Galileo Galilei Galilei, Galileo 1710 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Trophaea marina : to the Honourable Sir Charles Wager, Kt, Reer Admiral &c on his happy return from his glorious services abroad 1710 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Wager:094:820-14

The rules and exercises of holy dying... Taylor, Jeremy 1710 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:24

Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne Gueroult du Pas, P J 1710 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.123.16(262)(084.1)

A sermon against prophane cursing and swearing : being a charitable admonition to Her Majesty's fleet Robinson, T 1710 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:252

Ferguson's lectures on select subjects : in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing. /With notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences by David Brewster, A.M. Ferguson, James, 1806. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52:094

The voyage of Jacques de Vitry from Genoa to Acre. 1216 : juridical and economic problems in medieval navigation Pryor, John H 1988? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Vitry, Jacques de

The report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the frauds and abuses committed in the victualling Her Majesty's Navy: with the resolutions and orders of the House of Commons thereupon Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Naval Victualling 1710 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.65

Memoirs of the British fleets and squadrons in the Mediteranean, anno 1708 and 1709, wherein an account is given of the reduction of Sardignia, Minorca, the late sieges of Port Maon, Alicant and Denia Taubman, Nathaniel 1710 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1708/1709"(262)

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