Seeking Nature's Logic

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