Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

Thomas Reid (Autor)

Paul Wood (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-4338-7 (ISBN)

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Thomas Reid was an intellectual polymath interested in all aspects of Enlightenment thought. Paul Wood reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher and shows how he grappled with Sir Isaac Newton's scientific legacy.

Thomas Reid was an intellectual polymath whose interests encompassed all aspects of Enlightenment thought. Paul Wood reconstructs for the first time Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher and shows how he grappled with various aspects of the scientific legacy of Sir Isaac Newton.
This book provides the drafts and printed text of his earliest publication, 'An Essay on Quantity', along with a selection of his mathematical papers, including the significant series of manuscripts dealing with Euclid's problematic parallels postulate. Other manuscripts illustrate his skill as an observational astronomer, his work in optics dealing with the aberration of light, his speculations on electricity, and his engagement with the revolutionary chemical system of Lavoisier. Read in conjunction with Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation, this volume shows why Reid's contemporaries regarded him as an accomplished man of science.

Paul Wood is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published widely on the Scottish Enlightenment and particularly extensively on the work of Thomas Reid. He has edited two volumes in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.

Acknowledgements

The Manuscripts and Editorial Principles

Index of Manuscripts and Published Texts

Introduction by Paul Wood

1. Thomas Reid: The Making of a Mathematician and Natural Philosopher

2. Thomas Reid: Mathematical Practitioner

3. The Foundations of Euclidean Geometry

4. Reid and Newtonian Natural Philosophy

The Manuscripts and ‘An Essay on Quantity’

Part One: Euclidean Geometry

Part Two: ‘An Essay on Quantity’

Part Three: Astronomy

Part Four: Optics

Part Five: Electricity

Part Six: Chemistry

Notes

Editorial Notes

Part One: Euclidean Geometry

Part Two: ‘An Essay on Quantity’

Part Three: Astronomy

Part Four: Optics

Part Five: Electricity

Part Six: Chemistry

Textual Notes

Part One: Euclidean Geometry

Part Two: ‘An Essay on Quantity’

Part Three: Astronomy

Part Four: Optics

Part Five: Electricity

Part Six: Chemistry

Bibliography

Index of Persons and Titles

General Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7486-4338-9 / 0748643389
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-4338-7 / 9780748643387
Zustand	Neuware