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ASTRONOMICAL

Volume 2 · 79 words · 1797 Edition

something relating to Astronomy.

Astronomical Calendar, an instrument engraved on copper plates, printed on paper, and pasted on a board, with a brass slider carrying a hair; it shows by inspection the sun's meridian altitude, right ascension, declination, rising, setting, amplitude, &c. to a greater degree of exactness than the common globes.

Astronomical Sector, a very useful mathematical instrument, made by the late ingenious Mr Graham; a description of which is given in the course of the following article.