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==Biografi==
Ferguson dilahirkan dekat [[Rothiemay]] di [[Banffshire]] dari orangtua yang sederhana. Menurut otobiografinya, ia belajar membaca dari memperhatikan ayahnya mengajari kakaknya, dan dengan bantuan seorang perempuan tua ia bisa membaca lebih baik sebelum ayahnya mengajarinya. Setelah ayahnya mengajari menulis, ia dikirim pada usia tujuh tahun selama tiga bulan ke sekolah tatabahasa di [[Keith]].
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His taste for mechanics was about this time accidentally awakened on seeing his father making use of a [[lever]] to raise a part of the roof of his house — an exhibition of strength which excited his wonder. In 1720 he was sent to a neighboring farm to keep sheep, where he amused himself by making models of machines, and at night he studied the stars. Afterwards, as a servant with a miller, and then with a doctor, he met with hardships which rendered his constitution feeble through life. Being compelled by his health to return home, he then amused himself with making a clock having wooden wheels and a [[whalebone]] spring. When slightly recovered he showed this and some other inventions to a gentleman, who employed him to clean his clocks, and to make his house his home. He there began to draw patterns for needlework, and his success in this art led him to think of becoming a painter.
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