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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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134 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES instruction in high schools, academies, and colleges, or for a professional vocation. It presupposes course 4a, and is a continuation of it. While aiming to subserve the purposes of such students, this course is thought to be well suited to the need of students of the college of science who contemplate special work in the geological and biological sciences. The work of the recitation room is given by text-book and lectures. As much time as the degree of attainment of the student will warrant is given to laboratory work in the observatory. Young's General Astronomy. Fall term, full study. Associate Professor MYERS. Required: Astronomy 4a. 5. COSMOGONY.—The chief aim of this course is to acquaint the student with the evidence both for and against the Nebular Theory. The role of the tides in cosmogonic development receives special consideration, and the present view, together with the testimony furnished by astronomy relating to the origin and cosmic history of the earth-moon system is recapitulated in detail to the epoch where astronomy yields to geology. A summary of the researches of Darwin and of Lord Kelvin is included. The course is given by lectures, aided by lantern slides and supplemented by collateral readings. Clerke's System of the Stars, Winter term, full study. Associate Professor MYERS. Required: Astronomy 4b. 6. PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.—This course, which is offered both for engineers and special astronomical students, is intended to give the student training in the use of instruments of precision. He is here required to obtain all the precision an instrument can be made to yield, and to do it with the minimum expenditure of care and time. As a subordinate matter, he will be introduced to instruments of a higher grade than those' employed in ordinary surveying. A second purpose of the course is to train the student in the art of computing. Model forms of record and reduction for problems are set before him, and the advantage of compact and orderly arrangement of all work is strenuously insisted upon. As a. concrete outcome of the above training, the student should acquire the ability to determine latitude, time, and azimuth with such instruments as are used in the ordinary practice of civil engineering. The course will be given partly by text-book, partly by lecture, and partly by laboratory work. An essential part of the work is the theory of astronomical instruments. Campbell's Practical Astronomy. Spring term, full study. Associate Professor MYERS. Required: Astronomy 4a or 4b. 7. THEORY OF ORBITS;—This course embraces the following sub- jects: The formation and integration of the differential equations of
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