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John Robison (1739-1805) was a pivotal figure in the rise of a new style of mathematical physics in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. He lectured on chemistry at the University of Glasgow in the 1760s and was professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1773 until his death. Robison was also General Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he did much to educate the broader public in the natural sciences through his many contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (3rd edition). In 1822 one of Robison's former pupils, David Brewster, paid homage to his teacher by collecting Robison's contributions to the Britannica and publishing them under the title, "A System of Mechanical Philosophy". This work was generally seen in the early Victorian era as a reference point for the progress of scientific knowledge and its applications in the period. In our own day, the System serves not only to illuminate the history of the natural sciences and technology in Britain, but also to shed light on scientific culture in the Enlightenment and on Robison's outlook as a natural philosopher. For Robison's articles in the "Encylopaedia Britannica" reveal much about his own philosophical and scientific ideas in the course of dealing with almost all branches of the physical sciences, as well as the applied arts and many of the major scientific disputes of the late 18th century. Robison's System has become very hard to find in libraries, and this facsimile reprint with Paul Wood's new introduction should be welcomed by scholars of Enlightenment science and technology, and those interested in 18th and 19th-century studies more generally.
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Tfbat Burprised that, among the jnany llcroj Awb ul Uun e WcB mode )y tHe p ViU on Ujibeia of Britain to explain the wonderful pheoomena which ore classed under the name of Electricity, no author of eminence, bedes the Honourable Mr. Cavendbb and Lord Mahon, have avuled themaelves of their susceptibility of mathematical di Bcusuon; and our wonder bthe greater, beaause it was by amatbematical view of the subject, in the phenomena of attractioa and repulnon, that the celebrated philosopher Franklin was led to the only knowledge of electricity that deserves the name of sdence; for we had scarcely any leading facta, by which we oould class the phenomena, ti Qhe published his theory of poiilive and lugative, or pba and nuuu, electrity. This is founded entirely on the phenomena of attraction and repulnon. These furnish us with all the incations of the preseiice of the migh Kot, and the marka of its kind, and the measures of iu force. Me chanical (atce accompanies every other appearance; and this accraopammeot is regulated in a determinate manner. Many of tiie effects of electricity are strictly mechanic, TO t. IT.
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy. (8 Volumes)
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Bristol.: Thoemmes Pr, 2005
ISBN 10 : 1843710749
ISBN 13 : 9781843710745
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Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Still in original shipping carton List price - Amazon- $1045.00. Set will require additional postage because of weight." John Robison (1739-1805) was a pivotal figure in the rise of a new style of mathematical physics in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. He lectured on chemistry at the University of Glasgow in the 1760s and was professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1773 until his death. Robison was also General Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he did much to educate the broader public in the natural sciences through his many contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (3rd edition). In 1822 one of Robison's former pupils, David Brewster, paid homage to his teacher by collecting Robison's contributions to the Britannica and publishing them under the title, "A System of Mechanical Philosophy". This work was generally seen in the early Victorian era as a reference point for the progress of scientific knowledge and its applications in the period. In our own day, the System serves not only to illuminate the history of the natural sciences and technology in Britain, but also to shed light on scientific culture in the Enlightenment and on Robison's outlook as a natural philosopher. For Robison's articles in the "Encylopaedia Britannica" reveal much about his own philosophical and scientific ideas in the course of dealing with almost all branches of the physical sciences, as well as the applied arts and many of the major scientific disputes of the late 18th century. Robison's System has become very hard to find in libraries, and this facsimile reprint with Paul Wood's new introduction should be welcomed by scholars of Enlightenment science and technology, and those interested in 18th and 19th-century studies more generally." (Blackwell). Book. N° de réf. du vendeur H3253A
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