A Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature: Compiled From Popular Writers; To Which Is Added, a Copious List of the Latin and Greek ... of the English Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

M'culloch, John Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259185876 ISBN 13: 9780259185871

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature: Compiled From Popular Writers; To Which Is Added, a Copious List of the Latin and Greek Primitives Which Enter Into the Composition of the English Language

The present will be found in all respects more avail able to the purposes of tuition than any former Edition. Not only has the Work throughout, - including the List of Prefixes, Affixes, and Roots, in the Appendix, - been carefully revised; but, to ensure the greatest possible correctness, the whole of the scientific Lessons have been submitted to the revision of gentlemen eminent for their attainments in science: And it will probably be consid ered a sufficient presumption of philosophical accuracy, that they have received the corrections of Dr Greville, in the Botanical part; of Mr James Wilson, in the Zoolo gical part; and of Dr Fyfe, Mr Trotter, and Mr Lees, in the Chemical, Geographical, and Physical departments respectively. An additional improvement, - introduced for the first time in the present impression, and fitted, it is hoped, to render the whole at once more useful and more attractive, - is a Series of Diagrams and other Pic torial Embellishments, illustrative of such parts of the text as may not be adequately understood without the help of delineations addressed to the eye.

To the Writers whose names are appended to the various Lessons, some apology is perhaps due for the liberties which have been occasionally taken in abridg ing, simplifying, and otherwise altering their productions.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0259185876
• ISBN 13: 9780259185871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386