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Seeking Nature's Logic:

Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment
  • ISBN-13: 9780271035253
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David B. Wilson
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2009
  • Format: Hardback 360 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: British & Irish history [HBJD1]
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Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz

1. Changing Newton: The Legacy of Early Scottish Newtonians, 1690–1740

2. Midcentury Glasgow University, 1740–1760

3. The Natural Philosophy of Common-Sense Philosophy: Thomas Reid and His Colleagues, 1760–1788

4. The Natural Philosophy of Chemistry: Joseph Black and His Disciples, 1760–1786

5. Contemplating Knowledge and Nature: John Anderson, 1760–1796

6. John Robison’s Phlogiston Physics, Circa 1780

7. John Robison’s Boscovichian Physics, Circa 1800

8. Turn-of-the-Century Edinburgh University, 1790–1810

Bibliography

Index



“[Seeking Nature’s Logic] is clearly written and comprehensive and should become standard reading for scholars of the Enlightenment in Scotland.”

—Roger Emerson, Isis

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