LIFE OP THE AUTHOR. 



Amongst the poetical admirers of Mr. Ferguson, 

 we may place the late Mr. Capel Loft, who in his 

 Eudosia, or a Poem on the Universe, has the 

 following elegant allusion to the early labours of 

 our Author: 



" Nor shall thy guidance not conduct our feet, 

 O honour'd Shepherd of our later days ! 

 Whom from the flocks, while thy untutor'd soul, 

 Mature in childhood, trac'd the starry course, 

 Astronomy, enamour'd, gently led 

 Through all the splendid labyrinths of Hearen ; 

 And taught thee her stupendous laws ; uncloth'd 

 In all the light of fair simplicity, 

 Thy apt expression." 



THE FOLLOWING IS AN ACCURATE LIST OP 

 MR. FERGUSON'S PUBLISHED WORKS. 



Description of a new Orrery. Lond. 1745, 4to. 



Dissertation on the Phenomena of the Harvest Moon ; 

 also, The Description and Use of a new four-wheeled 

 Orrery ; and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round 

 her own axis. Lond. 1747. 8vo. 



A brief Description of the Solar System ; to which is sub- 

 joined, an Astronomical Account of the year of our 

 Saviour's Crucifixion. Lond. 1754, 8vo. 



Arj idea of the Material Universe, deduced from a Survey 

 of the Solar System. Lond. 1754. 8vo. Is. 



Astronomy explained, upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, 

 and made easy to those who have not studied Mathe- 

 matics. Lond. 1756, 1757, 4to. 15s. 



The same ; to which is added, A plain Method of finding 

 the distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the 

 transit of Venus over the Sun's disk. Lond. 1764, 4to. 

 5th edit. 1772. 



