TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Thomas
AU  - Wood,Paul
TI  - Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
T2  - The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid : EETHRE
SN  - 9780748643387
U1  - 510 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Physical sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; The Manuscripts and Editorial Principles --; Index of Manuscripts and Published Texts --; Introduction --; THE MANUSCRIPTS --; NOTES --; Bibliography --; Index of Persons and Titles --; General Index; restricted access
N2  - Reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first timeThomas 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
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