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 / by Margaret Bryan.

Bryan, Margaret, active 1815

1799

xxxviii, 415 p., [16] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.

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A portrait depicts a woman and two young girls in a room with scientific instruments. The woman, seated, holds a quill, while the girls stand near a desk with an astrolabe and telescope. A portrait depicts a woman and two young girls in a room with scientific instruments. The woman, seated, holds a quill, while the girls stand near a desk with an astrolabe and telescope. Illustrations drawn by author and engraved by T. Condor; frontispiece portrait of author and her daughters painted by Samuel Shelley and engraved by W. Nutter. Special Collections English 18 31780