Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley
Author: Kristine Louise Haugen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674058712

What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue”) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe’s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.

Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings
Author: Isaac Newton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521538480

This volume collects together Newton's principal philosophical writings for the first time.