John W. Arthur, Brilliant Lives: the Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment

Morality and Feeling in the Scottish Enlightenment

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James Clerk Maxwell's Scottish chair.

This account of Maxwell as professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, fills in many details that have been left out of Maxwell's biographies. It discusses the degree programme that Maxwell taught on, the nature of his colleagues, the type of student he had in his classes and the range of activities involved in his teaching. Evidence is cited that Maxwell was an enthusiastic...

The Scottish Enlightenment: essays in reinterpretation

It is sixty years since penicillin was first used to treat syphilis and, as a consequence, the ravages of its tertiary stage have faded from medical memory. All the more enlightening then to read this excellent first English translation of La Doulou (1930), a personal account of neurosyphilis written by the French novelist, playwright and journalist, Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). Although largel...

Scottish Enlightenment and Public Governance of the Economic System

Mr. Ralph Arthur John Baily