An Elementary Class Book on Astronomy in Which Mathematical Demonstrations Are Omitted - Couverture souple
Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
A stronomy, he had no other end in view than to teach Astronomy to such as may be competent to the task and fully prepared to learn it. His first aim was to produce a book of the right tone and character, without any regard to the number of persons who might be prepared to use it. That effort was entirely successful, but the book is not adapted to the great mass of pupils, because it requires of the learner considerable mathematical knowledge, and a corresponding discipline of mind, therefore but few persons, comparatively speaking, feel qualified to study that book. At the same time a book of like tone, character, and spirit, is demanded by teachers for the use of their more humble pupils, except that it must be on a lower mathematical plane, and this book is designed to supply that demand. In this work we have omitted mathematical investigations almost altogether. Yet we have endeavored to retain the spirit of the University edition, and much of the plain matter of fact in that book is the same in this. Some of the more abstruse parts of the science are omitted, and some of the more simple and elementary parts are more enlarged upon in this book, than in that.
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