Mathematical and Scientific Education, 



MR FIRMINGER, Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 

 from the Year 1798 to 1807, has commenced an Establishment for a liinite<^ 

 Number of Young Gentlemen, resident in his House, Charles Street, Clarendon 

 Square, Somers Town, for Instruction in the viyious Branches of the Mathematics ant] 

 Mathematical Sciences, with their practical application toth? several Departments of 

 a Civil, Military, Niival, and Commercial Education. 



The Courses of Instruction include, besides the Mathematics with their practical 

 applicition to Civil, Mili(ary, and Naval Admeasurement, Geography, History, Lite- 

 rature. t!ie Modern Lanjruages, and Polite Accomplishments, in which the assistance 

 of proper MasWsrs will be employed. 



A Series of Astronomiia! Observations will be made, including:, besides such as are 

 taken in com!uct''is: the Business of a Regular Observatory, those of Lunar Distances, 

 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites, and all Ob5erv,-\tious requisite in determining the Lon- 

 gitude at Sea or Land, the Rates of Time keepers, &c. Whereby the Students of Na- 

 vigation and Astronomy have the advantage of acquiring a complete knowledge o( 

 the Prsictical as well as Theoretical Departments of these Sciences. 



A Course of Experiments in the sciferal branches of Natural, (.'hemical, and Mecha- 

 nical Philosophy, will be exhibited and illustrated to the Pupils, in which the Mathe- 

 inatic?! Formulx derived from Theory and Induction, will, where the subject under 

 consideration admit;- of such method of investigacion, be applied and explained. 



Surveying, Levelling, and the several Branches • ^Ci-il and Military Admeasurement 

 will be practically illustrated by an application of the different Instrumer^U apprp- 

 priated to their respective subjects of investigation, with Drawing Plans, Maps, Pro- 

 jection, Perspective, &c. 



The Works of Hutton, Playfair, Atwood. the Cambridge and different Courses of 

 Mathematics, with such Authors, English and Foreign, as afford the best information, 

 will be Books of Reference and Study in the respective Departments of Science whic}^ 

 they contain. 



The .ibove Course of Studies and Establishment is calculated (and it is hoped wilt 

 prove to th; se who honour it with their patronage) to afford the most effectual mean* 

 for the f'.ducation of Young Gentlemen in the several branches of Instruction which 

 are professed to be taught ; and by v/hich they will be prepared for the Professions of 

 the Army and Navy, for their entrance into the Public Colleges and the Universities, 

 and for any Department of Public or Private Life, wherein, besides a Classical, a Ma- 

 thematical and Scientific Education is require^. 



Young Gentlemen preparing for their entrance at the University at Cambridge are 

 instructed in the Elen.ents of Euclid by Simwn, the Cambridge Mathematics, c;id 

 the Courses of Study adopted in the several Colleges of that University. 



The above is, in part, the Outline of a Plan of Listructiou drav/n up about four 

 years since by Mr. Firmi ger, for the late Right Hi, n Charles Grevilje, which wa^ 

 to have beca adopted under Mr. Firminger's superintendance in a large Estalilishmcnt 

 preparing ior that purpose at Milfora in South Wales. 



A most Complete and Elegant Observatory was nearly fmi.-.hed, and a set of Astro- 

 nomical Instruments, purcha.tcd at great Expense, was provided in readinpss for com- 

 mencement, when untortunaicly the De;ah of Mr.' Grcviilc, which happened suddenly, 

 put a preni; tura close to the undertaking, as sufficient funds (undoubtedly owing to so 

 unexpected a circumstance) had not hem provided for itsconiplction. 



Mr.Greville, v/hose sources of information were widely extended, and whose abilitie» 

 to appreciate were acktiowkdotd of superior nierit, being fully impressed with a con- 

 viction that much was wantini; in iclmols of i-xlucalion, and tliat by a proper ;;llotment 

 of thtir time the Eleves for Instruction niir;!it, in the usual perii;d allotted to a Classical 

 Education acquire also a considerable degree of Mathematical and Scientific Know-" 

 ledge. Departments of Instruction he he'd, in the present eiilightpncd s^atc of Society, 

 ^ually necessary in foiming the Public and Private Character, had determined that 

 nothing should be wanting in bis Establishment to complete his ititention of nlakir-g it 

 tubservi'.nt to the aiquirenient <if ."■r.-illicmalical anil Scientific as well as of Glaissicttl 

 Knowledge, for which pinpt)se every necos-ary provision v. suld have bten liiadc for 

 the Experimental as well as I h.eoreticnl Dopartni'cnts of Science, had ho lived to com- 

 plete hts intentions. As a more particuiar account of xhh intciulLd Establi.shment an«J 

 Plans of Etiucation may be intercoiitig and useful to the Public, an extended account 

 will be given in a future Num'jcr of this Work, with a Plan and lilevation of the Ob. 

 »ervatory, which at the same timccombines an Elegance of Foin\ with Simplicity and 

 Con\ etiience, certainly not surpassed if equalled by any of tlie Obicrvaionca now ex- 

 taat. 



