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.

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Title

The Improvement Of The Mind; With Corrections, Questions, And Supplement By Joseph Emerson

Publisher

James Loring, Boston Ma

Publication Date

1833

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Reprint

Condition

Good

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