Solar eclipse predictor, An illustration showing a mechanism designed to exhibit the time, duration and location of solar eclipses seen from the Earth. This mechanism was designed by the Scottish astronomer James Ferguson (1710-1776). Ferguson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.

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James Ferguson, Solar Eclipse Predictor, 1750

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