[Child Prodigy] Kurganov N. G. Tables showing the right ascension and declination of the sun at noon, from 1780 to ...

[Child Prodigy] Kurganov N. G. Tables showing the right ascension and declination of the sun at noon, from 1780 to 1792, and for other future years. According to the old timescale on the Meridian of the Royal Grenwitz Observatory.
St. Petersburg. Printed in the printing house of the Naval Gentry Cadet Corps, 1788. - 160 p. Without cover; normal format (16.5 x 20 cm). Spots, foxings on the pages, scuffs, tears along the perimeter; owner's notes in walnut ink by non-commissioned officer Lev Schlippenbach.

First edition of Kurganov's navigation tables.

(The tables are taken from the London edition of The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris.

Part of the circulation of this edition was used for publishing convolutions: "Additions to the Buger science of navigation..."([St. Petersburg.], 1790) and "Tables of the midday declinations of the Sun..."([St. Petersburg.], 1794.

Under the title " Additions to the Buger science of navigation..."the present tables were reprinted in 1794).

[Nikolai Gavrilovich Kurganov (1725 or 1726-1790 or 1796) — Russian educator, teacher, mathematician, military sailor, author and compiler of textbooks. The most famous of his grammar textbooks is the so-called Kurganov's Letter Book and the first textbook on geometry in Russian.

"The Russian universal grammar, or universal letter-writing, which offers the easiest way to thoroughly teach the Russian language with seven additions of various educational and useful-funny things" from subsequent editions was called "Pismovnik". Russian Russian grammar (according to Lomonosov), a reference book on classical mythology, a dictionary of foreign words, collections of anecdotes, folk proverbs and sayings, examples of folk poetry, selected poems by major Russian poets of the 18th century. The book was very popular and was well-known in the educated circles of Russian society (even Pushkin was interested in Kurganov's personality ["The History of the village of Goryukhin"]).

"Pismovnik" was reprinted 11 times (1769-1837), not counting the fragmentary Soviet reissue of 1976.]