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Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan
Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan

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BRYAN, Margaret.

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... Third edition. Revised and corrected by the authoress.

London, Wynne and Scholey; W. Baynes J. Scatchard, 1804.

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Third edition of this significant work by one of the early promoters of science education for girls. All early editions are rare commercially.

Margaret Bryan 'ran a boarding school for girls at Blackheath from 1795 to 1806, opened a school in London in 1815, and moved to Margate in 1816. The curriculum in her schools differed from that of most peer institutions by including mathematics and science as suitable subjects for girls' (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 198). A Compendious System of Astronomy was Bryan's first book, and it earned her the praise of Charles Hutton, Fellow of the Royal Society and professor mathematics at Woolwich Royal Military Academy. This encouraged her to published additional titles, including Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806) and An Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for Schools (1815).

Third edition; 8vo (210 x 120 mm); engraved portrait frontispiece, 17 plates (of which 3 folding), errata list, single leaf publisher's ads at rear, 20th-century book ticket to the front pastedown, a few plates trimmed closely but not affecting the image, title page tanned, a little spotting to plates; contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, edges dyed yellow, ring mark to upper board, possibly recased with old repairs to hinges and joints, very good condition; 398pp.

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Third edition of A Comperndious System of Astronomy, an important book by one of the early promoters of science education for girls, Margaret Bryan

A Compendious System of Astronomy,

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