A Succinct Treatise of Popular Astronomy: or, That Science Made Plain, Easy, and Intelligible to Every Capacity. To which are Subjoined, Prognostics of the Weather, From the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Meteors, &c. By a Lover of the Sciences.

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A rare educational pamphlet, published at the height of the Enlightenment of scientific discovery and philosophic discourse, and pre-dating planetary discoveries including Uranus (1781). As such, it only examines the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn, amongst other astronomical features like comets, the weather, stars and the Copernican System, after refuting the Ptolemaic and Tychonian Systems. The frontispiece depicts the Copernican solar system. ESTC locates copies in Aberdeen, NLS, and BL only, with Worldcat adding one more, in Stanford.