A compendious system of astronomy : in a course of familiar lectures, in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not studied the mathematics ; also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures, which latter are explained agreeably to their application in them / by Margaret Bryan.

Author
Bryan, Margaret, active 1815 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/​Created
London : Printed by H.L. Galabin ... for J. Wallis ... , 1799.
Description
xxxviii, 415 p., [16] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Notes
  • Illustrations drawn by author and engraved by T. Condor; frontispiece portrait of author and her daughters painted by Samuel Shelley and engraved by W. Nutter.
  • Princeton copy 2: On Title Page: Printed, by H. L. Galabin, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, for J. Wallis, No. 46, and Wynne and Scholey, No. 45, Paternoster-Row.
  • Princeton copy 2: Second Edition (first 1797) of Mrs. Bryan's first scientific publication. Unusual not only as a scientific work written by a woman for women and girls, but as a subscription work to which a significant number of the subscribers were women (of the 400 subscribers, 120 were women).
  • Princeton copy 2: Handsome stipple-engraved frontispiece of Mrs. Bryan with two young girls, surrounded with instruments: a telescope, an armillary sphere and a sextant, engraved after a miniature of the same size.
  • Princeton copy 2: Sig "Sarah Catherine Ward" at head of title.
  • Princeton copy 2: See id=17131, her Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806).
Binding note
Princeton copy 2: mrbld bds, rebacked.
OCLC
19374231
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