Margaret Bryan (teacher)
Margaret Bryan (* before 1760, † after 1816) was a British natural scientist and teacher, author of popular science books on physics and astronomy.
About her life data, little is known, she was born in 1760 and died after 1816. In the Dictionary of National Biography she is as beautiful and talented teacher ( beautiful and talented schoolmistress described). She was married and had at least two daughters, who are pictured with her on the frontispiez of her 1797 textbook on astronomy (with astronomical instruments in the background). The book was dedicated to her students. It was praised by Charles Hutton and has seen an expanded reissue. Her physics textbook from 1806 dealt with optics, pneumatics, hydrostatics and acoustics, among other things.
Her school for girls was first in Blackheath , then a village southeast of London, then in London in the upscale West End near Hyde Park Corner (Lower Cadogan Place 27) and finally in the seaside town of Margate .
She is not the author of the Conversations on Chemistry (as assumed in the older Dictionary of National Biography), which were published anonymously in 1806, but Jane Marcet (1769–1858).
Fonts
- A Compendious System of Astronomy, 1797
- Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1806
- A Comprehensive Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for the use of Schools and Private Families, 1815
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See Dict. Nat. Biogr., According to information in her book from 1806. In the book there is also a portrait after a painting by T. Kearsley.
- ↑ Frauke Böttcher: The mathematical and natural philosophical learning and work of the Marquise du Chatelet, Springer, 2013, p. 24. Jane Marcet is also the author of Conversation on Natural Philosophy , 1819
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bryan, Margaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British scientist and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1760 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1816 |