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

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Joseph Harris (c.1704–64) was an astronomer and teacher of navigation who published a number of books on scientific subjects. Reissued in its first edition, this 1731 popular introduction to the solar system and the use of astronomical apparatus, such as globes and orreries, went through fourteen printings by 1793.