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ASTRONOMY.
VOSE'S ASTRONOMY. A Compendium of Astronomy;
intended to simplify and illustrate the Principles of that Science.
Adapted to the Use of Common Schools, as well as higher Seminaries.
By John Vose, A. M., late Principal of Pembroke
Academy, and Author of a larger work on Astronomy.
In this Compendium of Astronomy, it has been the aim of the author to render
the principles of the science so simple, that they may be easily understood,
not only by the scholar who attends a few weeks at an academy, but
by him whose means and views do not carry him beyond the common
schools.
From the Annals of Education.
It (Vose's Astronomy) appears to have been prepared with care, and to
deserve confidence for its accuracy. * * * The spirit of the writer is excellent;
and we rejoice to see that our elementary books of natural science
have begun to recognize the Great First Cause, as well as the immediate
second causes of the wonders they describe. We think this book is well
adapted to high schools.
From the American Traveller.
We are pleased to meet with a successful attempt to simplify the principles
of Astronomy, and reduce its leading features to the understanding of
children.
From the Boston Galaxy.
Mr. Vose's book contains a simple and luminous account of the solar system,
and of most of the celestial phenomena. It is well written and arranged.
The definitions are copious and accurate. He has made the principles of the
science easy to be understood; and we doubt not that his labors will be useful
to many besides school-boys.
From Amasa Bush, High School, Norwich, Vt.
I consider the Astronomy by John Vose to be the most lucid compend I
have ever seen on that science. I have introduced it into my school in
preference to any other.
From Benjamin Greenleaf, Bradford Academy.
I have attentively examined Vose's Astronomy. The work is well arranged,
clear, and perspicuous. The scholar will find little or no difficulty
in understanding the illustrations. I have seen no work on this science, of
the same extent, which I consider so valuable.
FIRST LESSONS IN ASTRONOMY; designed for
Common Schools, illustrated with Cuts. By Samuel Worcester.
New revised and enlarged Stereotype Edition.
This work is written in an easy and familiar style, and will be found useful
in every school in leading the pupils on in the first steps to one of the most
interesting of the sciences, and one which has heretofore been too much neglected.
It is believed that this work contains nothing but what quite young
children can comprehend; and yet it contains the essential rudiments of this
study, than which there is not one better calculated to expand and ennoble
the youthful mind. The science of Astronomy seems not to have been heretofore
so far divested of its more difficult parts, as to be adapted to our common
schools; and therefore our children grow up in ignorance of much valuable
and interesting truth relating to this subject, which they are capable of
receiving.
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