The Modern Preceptor or a General Course of Education: Containing Introductory Treatises on Language, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Algebra, Geometry, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation,

The Modern Preceptor Or A General Course Of Education: Containing Introductory Treatises On Language, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Algebra, Geometry, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation, Drawing, Painting, &C., Agriculture, Geology, Moral Philosophy : For The Use Of Schools by John Dougall is a comprehensive nineteenth?century schoolroom compendium designed to illuminate a broad general education. It gathers introductory primers and practical manuals across disciplines, with geography presented as a foundational, descriptive science essential for locating places, describing regions, and guiding navigation. The work explains the shape of the earth, the coordinate grid of latitude and longitude, the equator and meridians (including a Greenwich prime meridian, historically illustrated), and the historical development of cartography. It couples cosmographic ideas, calendars, and navigational methods with analytic tables showing degrees, distances, and population data to demonstrate measurement in practice. The volume expands from universal concepts to Europe and major political regions, and includes detailed regional portraits, as well as substantial sections on geology and moral philosophy. Its pedagogy blends description with method, aiming to form educated, virtuous citizens through reason, habit, and virtuous conduct.