The Study of Astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth: In twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c.Stedman, John, teacher of astronomy
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The Study of Astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth: In twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c.
Stedman, John, teacher of astronomy
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature -- Early works to 1800
“Hail, Sov’reign Goodness! all-productive Mind!
“On all thy works thyself inscrib’d we find;
“How various all, how variously endow’d,
“How great their number, and each part how good!
“How perfect then must the Great Parent shine, ⎫
“Who, with one act of energy divine, ⎬
“Laid the vast plan, and finish’d the design!” ⎭
THE END.
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Directions to the Bookbinder.
Plate I. _to face the_ Title.
———— II. —— _page_ 40.
———— III. —— —— 88.
———— IV. —— —— 131.
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Transcriber’s note:
All instances of ‘disk’ changed to ‘disc’
Errata, instance of ‘disk’ on page 79 added, “—— 79. — 5. ⎭”
Page 11, ‘Years’ changed to ‘years,’ “130 years after Christ”
Page 20, ‘h e’ changed to ‘the,’ “would have as much the appearance”
Page 24, ‘cannon ball’ changed to ‘cannon-ball,’ “the time a cannon-ball
would”
Page 63, comma changed to full stop after ‘TUTOR,’ “TUTOR. Why?”
Page 65, ‘a’ changed to ‘_a_,’ “carry a planet from A to _a_”
Page 74, ‘itaxis’ changed to ‘its axis,’ “if the earth revolve on its
axis every”
Page 78, ‘Mercury’ struck after ‘Sun,’ “Sun, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter
are known to revolve on their axes”
Page 93, ‘cancer’ changed to ‘Cancer,’ “is the _tropic of cancer_; that”
Page 93, ‘capricorn’ changed to ‘Capricorn,’ “the _tropic of capricorn_”
Page 115, ‘othes’ changed to ‘other,’ “and other stars rise to his”
Page 115, ‘bnt’ changed to ‘but,’ “out from; but, by going round”
Page 116, ‘it’s’ changed to ‘its,’ “How can its surface be round”
Page 128, full stop inserted after ‘eclipses,’ “explain the cause of
eclipses.”
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