THE IMPORTANCE OF MATHEMATICAL STUDIES.

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After all, I must distinctly caution such of my readers as may commence and terminate their astronomical studies with the present work (though of such,--at least, in the latter predicament,--I trust the number will be few), that its utmost pretension is to place them on the threshold of this particular wing of the temple of science, or rather on an eminence exterior to it, whence they may obtain something like a general notion of its structure; or, at most, to give those who may wish to enter a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word.