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. 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. 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;
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