Library Record
Metadata
Call# |
M07.23 C37j |
Author |
Carpenter, Audrey T. |
Title |
John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England |
Publisher |
Continuum Interational Publishing Group |
Published Date |
2011 |
Published Place |
London/New York |
ISBN |
978-1-4411-2778-5 |
Copy# |
1 |
Catalog Number |
1984 |
Collection |
General Works: Biography |
Accession number |
M07.23 C37j |
Physical Description |
Softbound, 339pp |
Summary |
In 1744 the London press reported the death of 'Dr. Desaguliers, a gentleman universally known and esteemed'. Since then John Theophilus Desaguliers has been largely neglected, but in early-eighteenth-century London the stocky and energetic man of Huguenot origin, always in clerical dress, was a familiar figure. While historians of Freemasonry still recall his significant contribution to the arly years of the Grand Lodge of England, he was at least as prominent as an experimental philosopher. At a time of raptidly increasing interest in things scientific, he was a leading popularizer of the ideas of Sir Isaac Newton. His important books on what we would now term physicas and engineering were based on lectures and innovative demonstrations presented in public and to the Royal Society. |
Subjects |
Freemasonry, English Freemasonry, early Freemasonry, Europe Freemasons Engineers Engineering Isaac Newton Newton, Isaac Grand Lodge of England |
Search Terms |
Newton, Isaac Isaac Newton James Anderson Freemasonry Freemasonry and Civil Society Freemasonry, early Freemasonry, English Freemasonry, Europe Grand Lodge of England Grand Lodge of England Moderns |
Object Name |
Book |
Status |
OK |
Status date |
2012-03-21 |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |