isaac watts joseph emerson (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 240.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover in Fair to Good condition,12mo, pages: xvi,[i],[17]-234. Printed paper-covered boards, leather shelf-back w/paper label. Front hinge split but holding, board edges and tips worn, leather spine brittle with some loss, spine label darkened, light foxing, inked quote on ffep (mis-attributed?) by Cowper, a few textual notation (parentheses) and ink drops in text. Bookseller accession no.: DG065. From a 'Farnam Street' blog, "Watts's book 'The Improvement of the Mind' was an important contribution to the growing body of work emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and rational, balanced inquiry, rather than adhering to centuries of dogma.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. 234 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Printed Paper Label, Green Boards. First Printing, 1833, With Copyright By This Publisher, Loring. Worn, Loss Of Some Lettering On Spine Label, Boards Quite Worn At Corners, Hinges Solid, Slight Wrinkling To All Pages, Two Small Squares Cut Out F Front Endpaper, Traces Of Owner's Signature Dated 1840. Per Wikipedia, Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748) Was An English Congregational Minister, Hymn Writer, Theologian, And Logician. He Was A Prolific And Popular Hymn Writer And Is Credited With Some 750 Hymns.Watts Could Not Attend Oxford Or Cambridge Because He Was A Nonconformist And These Universities Were Restricted To Anglicans?As Were Government Positions At The Time.Watts Wrote A Textbook On Logic Which Was Particularly Popular; Its Full Title Was, Logick, Or The Right Use Of Reason In The Enquiry After Truth With A Variety Of Rules To Guard Against Error In The Affairs Of Religion And Human Life, As Well As In The Sciences. This Was First Published In 1724, And It Was Printed In Twenty Editions.Isaac Watts' Logic Became The Standard Text On Logic At Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard And Yale, Being Used At Oxford For Well Over 100 Years. Charles Sanders Peirce, The Nineteenth-Century Logician, Wrote Favourably Of Watts' Logic. When Preparing His Own Textbook, Titled A Critick Of Arguments: How To Reason (Also Known As The Grand Logic), Peirce Wrote, "I Shall Suppose The Reader To Be Acquainted With What Is Contained In Dr Watts' Logick, A Book. Far Superior To The Treatises Now Used In Colleges, Being The Production Of A Man Distinguished For Good Sense." Watts Followed The Logic In 1741 By A Supplement, The Improvement Of The Mind. This Also Went Through Numerous Editions And Later Inspired Michael Faraday. It Was Also Widely Used As A Moral Textbook In Schools. On His Death, Isaac Watts' Papers Were Given To Yale University In The Colony Of Connecticut, Which Nonconformists (Puritans/Congregationalists) Had Established.