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

by David B. Wilson

Book Overview

Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033606
• ISBN13: 9780271033600
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"