Authority Cited: Watts; Wat.
Author name and dates: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Nonconformist theologian; prolific hymn writer; logician; texts (used at Oxbridge 100 years) present logic as practical art
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 461 Watts cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 514 Watts cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Watts cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict., and one cite incorrectly changed to Watts, indicated in bold italic below. In the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman, item 262 is Watts's Logic &c.]
Author name and dates: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Nonconformist theologian; prolific hymn writer; logician; texts (used at Oxbridge 100 years) present logic as practical art
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 461 Watts cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 514 Watts cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Watts cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict., and one cite incorrectly changed to Watts, indicated in bold italic below. In the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman, item 262 is Watts's Logic &c.]
- Logick & Introduction; 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. By Isaac Watts, D.D., 1745, London: Printed for T. Longman, and T. Shewell, in Pater-noster-Row and J. Brackstone, in Cornhill; anatomical; concomitant; ductility; intermediate; meridian; operate; preponderate; preponderation; property; telescope; volubility; [BKG Note: per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), a copy of Logick (1745), marked by SJ, is in the British Library - C.28.g.9. The first edition was 1725.]
- Improvement of the Mind: The Improvement of the Mind; or a Supplement to the Art of Logick. London, 1741. (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 159); accelerate; geometrician; periodical; postulate;quadrature; revolution; stimulation; temperature; tincture; volatile;
- Watts (no work cited); die; suseptible (incorrectly changed from Wotton in the 1755 Dict.)