71 2058 Astronomy Ferguson J 71/2058 [Astronomy]. Ferguson, J. De starrekunde voor jonge heeren en jufferen, op eene gemeenzaame wyze verhandeld in tien samenspraaken tusschen Neander en Eudosia. Amst., P. Meijer, 1771, 1st Dutch ed., (4),233,(3)p., 7 fold. engr. plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. - Binding sl. worn. A fine copy. = Poggendorf I, p.734; DSB IV, p.565: "A skilled designer of clocks and planispheres (as well as a "solar eclipsareon"), he [Ferguson] became an accomplished lecturer and expounder of Newtonian ideas, especially after the publication of his Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1756), which went through seventeen editions." Most of the plates show astronomical instruments.
71 2058 Astronomy Ferguson J 71/2058 [Astronomy]. Ferguson, J. De starrekunde voor jonge heeren en jufferen, op eene gemeenzaame wyze verhandeld in tien samenspraaken tusschen Neander en Eudosia. Amst., P. Meijer, 1771, 1st Dutch ed., (4),233,(3)p., 7 fold. engr. plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. - Binding sl. worn. A fine copy. = Poggendorf I, p.734; DSB IV, p.565: "A skilled designer of clocks and planispheres (as well as a "solar eclipsareon"), he [Ferguson] became an accomplished lecturer and expounder of Newtonian ideas, especially after the publication of his Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1756), which went through seventeen editions." Most of the plates show astronomical instruments.
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