The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery: To Which Is Prefixed, by Way of Introduction, a Brief Account of the Solar System

Joseph Harris

doi:10.1017/CBO9781316105931

Born in rural Wales, to which he always felt a close connection, Joseph Harris (c.1704–64) moved to London in 1724, presenting the Astronomer Royal, Edmond Halley, with a testimonial of his mathematical ability. Harris then found work as an astronomer and teaching of navigation; his observations of magnetism and solar eclipses taken in Vera Cruz in 1726 and 1727 were relayed to the Royal Society by Halley. Harris' illustrated introduction to the solar system was originally printed for the instrument-maker Thomas Wright and the globe-maker Richard Cushee; it is here reissued in its 1731 first edition. Clearly describing the use of astronomical apparatus such as globes and orreries, it proved very popular, going through fourteen printings by 1793. Harris starts with an overview of the solar system and the fixed stars, and then shows how to solve astronomical problems using globes and orreries.

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The INTRODUCTION: Containing a brief Account of the Solar System, and of the fixed Stars
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The DESCRIPTION and USE of the CELESTIAL and TERRESTRIAL GLOBES
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SECT. I - An Explanation of the Circles of the Sphere, and of some Astronomical Terms arising therefrom
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SECT. II - GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS: Of the Situations of Places upon the Earth ; of the different Situations of its Inhabitants; of Zones and Climates
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SECT. III - The USE of the GLOBES
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The DESCRIPTION of the ORRERY
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INDEX
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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-viii

The INTRODUCTION: Containing a brief Account of the Solar System, and of the fixed Stars
pp 1-34

The DESCRIPTION and USE of the CELESTIAL and TERRESTRIAL GLOBES
pp 35-38

SECT. I - An Explanation of the Circles of the Sphere, and of some Astronomical Terms arising therefrom
pp 39-69

SECT. II - GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS: Of the Situations of Places upon the Earth ; of the different Situations of its Inhabitants; of Zones and Climates
pp 70-86

SECT. III - The USE of the GLOBES
pp 87-151

The DESCRIPTION of the ORRERY
pp 152-185

INDEX
pp 186-190

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