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A Treatise on Astronomy, in Which the Elements of the Science Are Deduced in a Natural Order, From the Appearances of the Heavens to an Observer on ... by an Application to the Various Phenomen
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The public to transfer their exclusive encouragement to his own performance; on the contrary, he cannot refrain from giving his suffrage to the real value and obvious utility of the labours of several of his predecessors in this depart ment of science. The eks of Mr. Bonnyeastle, Mrs. Bryan, Mr.' Ferguson, and Dr. Long, are admirably Calculated to conifey'in a popular manner, but in a manner which often' unites familiarity with elegance, a clear and correct state ment of the various facts which Astronomy brings to light, and ingenious explanations of the principal phenomena of the Heavens Among the scientific treatises, those of Dr. Gregory, M. De la Gail/e, and Mr. Professor yince, merit dis.
The public to transfer their exclusive encouragement to his own performance; on the contrary, he cannot refrain from giving his suffrage to the real value and obvious utility of the labours of several of his predecessors in this depart ment of science. The eks of Mr. Bonnyeastle, Mrs. Bryan, Mr.' Ferguson, and Dr. Long, are admirably Calculated to conifey'in a popular manner, but in a manner which often' unites familiarity with elegance, a clear and correct state ment of the various facts which Astronomy brings to light, and ingenious explanations of the principal phenomena of the Heavens Among the scientific treatises, those of Dr. Gregory, M. De la Gail/e, and Mr. Professor yince, merit dis.
554 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Olinthus Gregory
211 booksOlinthus 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.
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.
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