A Short System of Polite Learning: Being an Epitome of the Arts and Sciences : for the Use of Schools

A Short System Of Polite Learning: Being An Epitome Of The Arts And Sciences : For The Use Of Schools by Daniel Jaudon. This early American educational primer presents a comprehensive, question?and?answer survey of the liberal arts and sciences intended for school use. The volume, described as the Third American Edition Improved, surveys theology, religion, philosophy, logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics, along with jurisprudence, government, politics, medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, rhetoric, grammar, language, poetry, music, mathematics, commerce, geometry, mechanics, optics, astronomy, and geography. It opens with a Preface on the value of early education and the diffusion of polite learning, followed by an extensive Contents listing, and then a protracted catechetical style treatment of each topic. The text also covers natural phenomena such as the atmosphere, meteors, electricity, storms, winds, weather, tides, earthquakes, volcanoes, and rain, interwoven with discussions of the sciences and arts, the structure of government, and a broad historical and geographic panorama. The work functions as a reference?oriented primer designed to illuminate both theoretical and practical knowledge for learners.