The book The Boyhood of Great Men was written by author John G John George Edgar Here you can read free online of The Boyhood of Great Men book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Boyhood of Great Men a good or bad book?
Where can I read The Boyhood of Great Men for free?
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read The Boyhood of Great Men Online - link to read the book on full screen.
Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book -
Read Book The Boyhood of Great Men
What reading level is The Boyhood of Great Men book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
fession for twenty-six years with considerable success, but not with devotion. His astronomical studies had not, in the mean time, been neglected ; he had still continued to make observations ou the stars, and was most enthusiastic in this pursuit Having discovered the cause of eclipses by himself, he drew up a scheme to show the motions and places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic on each day of the year. This having been engraved, sold well ; and its author's mind be- came every day more ab...sorbed in astronomical studies. At length tired of drawing pictures, for which he had no natural taste, he resolved to go to London, in the hope of finding employment as a teacher of mechanics and astronomy. He was immediately brought into notice by the President of the Royal Society, to whom his paper on the moon's motion had introduced and recommended him. In 1747 he published a disputation on the phenomena of the harvest-moon. In 1748 he began to give public lectures on his favorite subject, and had King George III.
User Reviews: