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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 over the sun's disc, in the year 1761 : an account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639 : and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761 / by James Ferguson.

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Philadelphia : Matthew Carey, 1809, c1806.

1809-1806

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-OMP (Ferguson, J. Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. 1809)Item locationOffsite
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A plain elementary and practical system of natural experimental philosophy; including astronomy and chronology by the late John Ewing, D.D., provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia, Hopkins and Earle, 1809.

1809

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-PAE (Ewing, J. Plain elementary and practical system of natural experimental philosophy)Item locationOffsite

The Newtonian system of philosophy : explained by familiar objects in an entertaining manner / by Tom Telescope.

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Philadelphia : Johnson & Warner, 1808

1808

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberPAF (Telescope, T. Newtonian system of philosophy)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number*KH 1808 Telescope 16-867Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.

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Philadelphia : Printed for and published by Mathew Carey, 1806

1806

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-PAG (Ferguson, J. Ferguson's lectures on select subjects) v. 2Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number3-PAG (Ferguson, J. Ferguson's lectures on select subjects) v. 1Item locationOffsite

Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, ... edited ... by David Brewster.

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Philadelphia, Mathew Carey, 1806.

1806

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FormatBook/TextCall numberStuart 12435Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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The American accountant; or, Schoolmasters' new assistant: comprised in four books ... and including all the questions in the Philadelphia edition of Gough ... The whole adapted to the commerce of the United States ... By Benjamin Workman.

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Philadelphia, Printed for William Young, 1796.

1796

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KD 1796 (Workman, B. American accountant)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of assays at the Mint of the United States, of sundry foreign coins. : January 19, 1824. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

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Washington [D.C.]: : Printed by Gales & Seaton., 1824.

1824

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTF p.v. 31 no. 1-51Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Letter from the secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the director of the Mint, of the result of several assays at that establishment, on the gold and silver coins of foreign nations, made current by the laws of the United States. : December 9, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table.

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Washington [D.C.]: : Printed by E. De Krafft., 1818.

1818

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FormatBook/TextCall numberTF p.v. 31 no. 1-51Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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