Author:Joseph Harris (1702-1764)

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Joseph Harris
(1702/1704–1764)

English astronomer, navigator, economist and King's Assay Master at the Royal Mint

Works

  • A Treatise on Navigation, Containing the Theory of Navigation Demonstrated, Nautical Problems, Astronomical Problems, Practical Navigation, to Which Is Prefixed a Treatise of Plane Trigonometry (1730)
  • The Description and Uses of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globe and the Orrery (1734)
  • An Essay on Money and Coins (Vol. I, 1756, and Vol. II, 1758)
  • A Treatise of Optics, Containing Elements of the Science (1775) (external scan)

Works about Harris

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