Excerpt from The Elements of Astronomy: Designed for the Use of Students in the University
Definitions; On the Doctrine of the Sphere; To determine the right Ascension, Declination, Latitude and Longitude of the heavenly Bodies; On the Equation of Time; On the Length of the Year, the Precession of the Equinoxes from Observation, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic; On Parallax; On Refraction; On the System of the World; On Kepler's Discoveries; On the Motion of a Body in an Ellipse about the Focus; On the Opposition and Conjunction of the Planets; On the mean Motion of the Planets; On the greatest Equation, Excentricity, and Place of the Aphelia of the Orbits of the Planets; On the Nodes and Inclinations of the Orbits of the Planets; On the apparent Motions and Phases of the Planets; On the Moon's Motion from Observation, and it's Ph?nomena; On the Rotation of the Sun and Planets; On the Satellites; On the Ring of Saturn; On the Aberration of Light; On the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon; On the Transits of Mercury and Venus; On Comets; On the Fixed Stars; On the Longitude of Places upon the Earth
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