Title: The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository: Volume 2
Publisher: HardPress Ltd
Publication Date: 1811
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0371739276
ISBN 13: 9780371739273
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New
Weight: 526 grams

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The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, And Philosophical Repository by Pishey Thompson; William Marrat is a dense late-18th/early-19th-century miscellany that blends travelogue, ethnographic notes, antiquarian lore, bibliographic anecdotes, philosophical essays, literary gossip, poetry, and a substantial mathematical section. The issue presents reportage from Asia Minor—Anatolia—including a first-person journal of a journey, encounters with Turkish authorities and Greek villagers, observations on daily life, trade, religion, and social conditions, as well as natural-history notes and rural technologies. The publication threads empire-era governance and cross-cultural contact with critical sympathy for subject peoples, alongside bibliographic curiosity and literary sketches. Philosophical discussions address sophisms, self-love, reason, and virtue; editorial and publishing notes reflect a print culture fostering public learning. A substantial Mathematical Department features geometry, trigonometry, calculus-like fluxions, and collaborative problem solving. The overall voice is collaborative and cosmopolitan, capturing Enlightenment-era aspirations for cross-disciplinary knowledge, reform-minded pedagogy, and cultural conversation.

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