The Connexion of Number and Magnitude: An Attempt to Explain the Fifth Book of Euclid

8vo. iv, 87pp. Bound in period buckram. 'Rev J. P. Higman from the Author' to the front end paper. From the library of the philosopher, Shadworth Hodgson and then through his bequest from the library of Corpus Christie Colllege, Oxford, with his and their bookplates, to the front paste down and end paper, barcode to the paste down and label to the front board. Spine chipped, and FRONT BOARD LOOSENING from the top of the spine, otherwise sound. Internally, tight and clean. Shadworth Hodgson (1832-1912) was a British philosopher who worked and published outside the University system. He was a prolific early contributor to the journal, Mind, and part of the Scratch Eight, mostly fellow contributors, including the parapsychologist, Edmund Gurney and Virginia Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephens, who met to debate philosophical and psychological issues. It was at a meeting of the Eight where Hodgson first met the American philosopher, William James, brother of Henry James, who was invited to a meeting by Gurney. Hodgson and James were regular correspondents from that point on, with James influenced and quoting from Hodgson in his book The Principles of Psychology. James’ concept of the ‘Specious Present’ owing a debt to Hodgson’s idea of ‘the empirical present’. The phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl, who may have imbibed Hodgson through William James later credited Hodgson with insights into a subjectivist approach to philosophy.…