Publications of R Turner

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• Turner, R. A view of the heavens: Being a short, but comprehensive, system of modern astronomy. Exhibiting, I. The number, order, distances, magnitudes, and periods of all the planets and their several moons, composing our system, which the learning of the present age esteems as so many worlds full of inhabitants. II. The length of the day and year, with the variety of the seasons in each planet; and also the phaenomena of the heavens to the inhabitants thereof. ...IX. The nature and causes of eclipses, both of the Sun and Moon; with an easy and expeditious method of calculating the eclipses which will happen in any year. X. The description and use of a curious astronomical clock, which will shew the hour of the night by the stars. To which is added, the use of the caelestial globe: with its application to a number of very interesting problems. Concluding with some curious phaenomena upon the Sun and Moon exhibited in a darkened room; and a few select paradoxes, intended to excite the attentio. London : Printed for S. Crowder; at No. 12, Pater-noster-Row, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]. ESTC No. T66039. Grub Street ID 290848.