Lessons, Astronomical and Philosophical, for the Amusement and Instruction of British Youth: Being an Attempt to Explain and Account for the Most ... Principles, the Whole Interspersed in Mora

by Olinthus Gregory

Excerpt from Lessons, Astronomical and Philosophical, for the Amusement and Instruction of British Youth: Being an Attempt to Explain and Account for the Most Usual Appearances in Nature in a Familiar Manner, From Established Principles, the Whole Interspersed in Moral Reflections
It has been for a considerable time allowed by the majority of intelligent persons, that amongst a variety of studies there are none of greater utility, or that afford more real pleasure to a rational mind, than those on Philosophical Subjects.
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355 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2015

About the author

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 – 2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author and editor.

He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.