1st Edition
Seeking Truth: Roger North's Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c.1704-1713
Biography
Jamie C. Kassler was elected as a fellow (1991) of the Australian Academy of the Humanities for contributions to musicological theory and was a recipient of the Centenary Medal (2003) for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of philosophy. A collection of her articles was published as Music, Science, Philosophy: Models in the Universe of Thought (Ashgate 2001). She is also the author of The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music (Ashgate, 2004) and The Honourable Roger North, 1681-1734 (Ashgate, 2009).
'Seeking Truth not only adds significantly to our understanding of Roger North’s mindset and work, but it offers a unique perspective on the manner in which an intelligent provincial intellectual, who prided himself on being a discerning critic, attempted to come to terms with the content of Newtonian natural philosophy as well as with its perceived ramifications for theology and moral philosophy.' Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology, USA
‘Seeking Truth will be of interest to scholars of North, Clarke, Augustan theological disputes, or the diffusion of Newtonianism in the early eighteenth century’. The Sixteenth Century Journal
'Kassler provides the reader with extremely valuable manuscript materials, accompanied by her insightful analysis of the development of North’s natural-philosophical and religious ideas.' Cornelis J. Schilt, The British Journal for the History of Science
