Seeking Nature's Logic : Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment by ...

Pennsylvania State University Press

Seeking Nature's LogicNatural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment\nAuthor(s): David B. Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271033600, 978-0271033600\nSynopsis\nThe Scottish Enlightenment was a vital moment in the history of Western civilization. As one modern admirer of Scotland cogently wrote: No small nationexcept Greecehas ever achieved an intellectual and cultural breakthrough of this magnitude. Placing Isaac Newtons natural philosophy within a broad conceptual context, Seeking Natures Logic takes that science from Galileo to the early nineteenth century, concentrating on Scotland during the 120 years from 1690 to 1810a period defined by the publication of Newtons Principia in 1687 and the death of John Robison in 1805. Newtons work changed the course of natural philosophy, and Robison was the most significant natural philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment.\n\n.