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 (1797)
Bryan, Margaret, active 1815 · London, Printed for the author and sold by Leigh and Sotheby and G. Kearsley · leaf 155
o much, I shall content myself with bringingyou acquainted with the nature of those things mathematicians ap-ply to the sciences they cultivate, in order to ascertain the realsizes, distances, &c. of the heavenly bodies, without perplexingyou with theories too profound for your contemplation.… … M.Bryan deiin,£. T.Gmder sculp? [ 105 ] Lectures will assist you in comprehending the practical part of thesubject. When light falls obliquely on a medium of a different density,you know it is refracted; you are also acquainted with the lawsof refraction, and that heat and light diminish as the…
Astronomy
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