The ladies astronomy and chronology, in four parts: Viz. I. A short and easy Explanation of the real Nature and Causes of the Phanomena of the Celestial Lights. The Occasion of the Eclipses, and Reason of the Tides, the Terrestrial and Celestial Spheres. And the Machine called the Assimilo, explained. Beginning at Page 13. II. The Ptolemaic System explained; the Reasons of Days and Nights; their Increase, and Decrease; the different Seasons, viz. Summer and Winter, Heat and Cold, the Moon's Increase and Decrease; the Solar and Lunar Eclipses; and when they happen: All demonstrated by the Assimilo. Beginning at Page 32. III. The Copernican System explained, and all the fore-mention'd Particulars demonstrated, according to that System, by the Assimilo; and proved, though the Sun be nearer to us in Winter than in Summer, that will not Counter-Change the Seasons, as many apprehend. Beginning at Page 55. IV. The Elements of Chronology explained, viz. Kalendars, Cycles, and Periods, and how

People / Organizations

• Jasper Charlton (Author)
• Thomas Gardner ("printed by")

Imprint

London: printed by Thomas Gardner in Bartholomew-Close, for the author; and sold, either with or without the Assimilo, by John Whiston, at Boyle's-Head, near Water-Lane, Fleet-Street; and by Thomas Scadlethorp, Bookseller at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1735.

Publication year

1735-1735

ESTC No.

T73781

Grub Street ID

296986

Description

52[i.e.152],[4]p.,plates ; 8⁰

Note

With a final leaf of errata.

Pages 151 and 152 mispaginated.