... by Duke University Press 2017 Adam Smith astronomy morality commercial society Fontenelle Copernican system gravity References Adkins Gregory Matthew . 2000 . “When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61 ( 3 ): 433 – 52...

... of Astronomy,” “The History of the Ancient Physics,” and “The History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics”; it may be found under those titles in the Glasgow edition of Smith’s works in vol. 3, Es.sason Phifosophicaf Subjects (1980). I shall cite them by name hereinafter, giving part and paragraph...

... , A. 1795 . The principles which lead and direct philosophical enquiries: illustrated by the history of astronomy. In Essays on philosophical subjects . London and Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell Jr. and W. Davies. Spinoza , B. 1737 . A treatise partly theological and partly political...

... the classical, mathematical traditions of geometrical optics, statics, and astronomy. A “second scientific revolution” (218), beginning at the end of the eighteenth century, had at last brought the formerly Baconian sci- ences of electricity, heat, and physical optics into physics by making...

... Theory and Natural Philosophy . Aldershot: Edward Elgar. Cleaver, K. C. 1989 . Adam Smith on Astronomy. History of Science 27 : 211 -18. Davis, J. Ronnie. 1990 . Adam Smith on the Providential Reconciliation of Individual and Social Interests: Is Man Led by an Invisible Hand or Misled...

... was not one of complacent acceptance. The matter grows more interesting when one comes to Smith’s earlier writings. In his brief sketch of the history of Greek philosophy in the astronomy essay Smith says that Plato drew strongly on a tradi- tion which went back through Empedocles...

... of the termsscience and scien- tific by taking astronomy as the exemplary “true science”: Astronomy is a field of study which is “scientific” more than any other of the fields of study having as their object the exploration of the exte- rior world. The reason for this, it seems, is that in astronomy...

... . An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Books 4–5 . Edited by Skinner A. S. . Harmondsworth : Penguin . ———. ( 1795 ) 1980 . “ The History of Astronomy .” In Essays on Philosophical Subjects , edited by Wightman W. L. D. , 33 – 105 . Oxford : Oxford University...

... of Astronomy Argument: How Broadly Does It Apply? And Where Do Propositions Which ‘Sooth the Imagination’ Come From?” History of Economic Ideas 15 ( 2 ): 53 – 78 . ———. 2011 . Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics . New York : Cambridge University Press...

... Random-Effects Models from Panel Data Covering Short Time Periods . Econometrica 51 : 1635 – 59 . Chauvenet W. 1863 . A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. Vol. 1, Spherical Astronomy; vol. 2, Theory and Use of Astronomical Instruments: Method of Least Squares . Philadelphia...

... and astronomy. Geology appears to be a more appropriate science for such comparisons. The geologist deals with a changing structure, with phenomena he cannot control, and is faced with experiments already run by Nature. “He is given the result and is asked what the experiment...

..., chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astronomy of India about AD. 1030.” He had gleaned much from his Indian mentors and Indian writings relating to medicinal drugs, astrology, astronomy, mineralogy, mathe- matics and other .sciences, and hulmmities. He sought to picture Indian...

... . Whewell W. 1833 . “ Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology .” The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in Creation . London : William Pickering . Whewell W. 1837a . On the Foundations of Morals: Four Sermons...

... the very same message. 3. This history of a mathematical theory of errors is well exposed by Judy Klein (1997), L. E. Maistrov (1974), and Stephen Stigler (1986). 116  Marcel Boumans with precise instruments. In astronomy and geodesy, these requirements were no problem, but there are a lot...

.... The matter of what algorithm Jevons used is not entirely an academic exercise. It would not have been beyond arithmetic feasibility for Jevons to have used some variant of least squares in 187 1. Legendre and Gauss had used nonlinear least squares half a century earlier in astronomy and geodesy...

.... Oxford:Oxford University Press. ____. [1795] 1980 . The History of Astronomy. In Essays on Philosophical Subjects , edited by W. P. D. Wightman and J. C. Bryce. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sutherland, S. R. 1982 . The Presbyterian Inheritance of Hume and Reid. In The Origins and Nature...

... it necessary to suppose that Smith himself had such a structured intention in mind. Rather, the dovetailing of the two works illustrates the remarkable unity of Smith’s larger conception of the human universe, a unity that pervades all his works from the lectures on Rhetoric and the essay on Astronomy...

...-’ fications to laissez faire and that he was opposed to regressive taxation. Chapter 6 has a neat thesis; Pack examines Smith’s “Essay on Astronomy’* and concludes that, in Smith’s view, those who soothe our feelings of wonder and surprise are most likely to gain our lasting admiration. In The Wealth...

... be interested in this new anthology. The essential Adam Smith divides Smith’s writ- ings into three main sections. The first covers early work, including an essay on the history of astronomy and excerpts from student notes on lectures on law and government given while Smith was Professor of Moral...

... be interested in this new anthology. The essential Adam Smith divides Smith’s writ- ings into three main sections. The first covers early work, including an essay on the history of astronomy and excerpts from student notes on lectures on law and government given while Smith was Professor of Moral...