?Copy letter on astronomy, astrology, Greek history
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?Copy letter on astronomy, astrology, Greek history etc., manuscript, 10pp., last f. with small tear along central fold, other folds, browned, stitched in margins, sm. 4to, Wem, Shropshire, 10th June 1765, mentioning a celestial globe "on Senex's construction. Mr Ferguson told me, when I last saw him that Benj: Martin had taken up that method of fitting up celestial globes. I never was in Mr Martin's shop ", mentioning Newton, the fable of Athamas and Ino, and astrology, " when the sun was in Libra or Scorpio, Venus again disappeared and Mars with her, both immering [sic] near the Western horizon in the solar rays".
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