| Evidence: | 'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am not one of the gifted half-dozen that can understand it - but the original of that book which Smeal once brought from Selkirk and lent to you.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 20 Nov 1817 and 30 Apr 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kirkcaldy | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Simon-Pierre Laplace |
| Title: | Exposition du systeme du monde |
| Genre: | Other religious, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1796 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5118 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, South Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 124 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5118, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 30th April 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 123 - 126 in this edition. Carlyle does not specify which edition of the work that he read, or which part he read. |
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