John Venn : unpublished writings and selected correspondence / Lukas M. Verburgt.
Venn, John, 1834-1923, author.; Verburgt, Lukas M., compiler, writer of supplementary textual content.
2022
B1669.V51 V47 2022
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Title John Venn : unpublished writings and selected correspondence / Lukas M. Verburgt.
Author Venn, John, 1834-1923, author.
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ISBN 9783030798291 (electronic bk.)
3030798291 (electronic bk.)
9783030798284
3030798283
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79829-1
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79829-1 doi
Call Number B1669.V51 V47 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 160
Summary This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos. Venn published three influential textbooks on logic, contributed some dozen articles to the then newly-established journal Mind, of which he became co-editor in 1892, and counted F.W. Maitland, William Cunningham and Arthur Balfour among his pupils. After his active career as a logician, which ended around the turn of the 20th century, Venn reinvented himself as a biographer of his University, College and family. Together with his son, he worked on the massive Alumni Cantabrigienses, which is still used today as a standard reference source. The material presented here, including the 100-page Annals: Autobiographical Sketch, provides much new information on Venn's philosophical development and Cambridge in the 1850s-60s. It also brings to light Venn's relation with famous colleagues and friends, such as Leslie Stephen, Francis Galton, and William Stanley Jevons, thereby placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Verburgt, Lukas M., compiler, writer of supplementary textual content.
Series Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 56. 2215-1958
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Introduction
Abbreviations
Part I Unpublished Writings
Note to the Reader
Annals- Autobiographical Sketch
Science and Common Thought
Part II Selected Correspondence
Note to the Reader
List of Letters
I. Student: 1853-1857
II. Curate: 1858-1862
III. Moral Scientist: 1862-1899
IV. Looking Back: 1900-1923
Biographical List of Names
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Bibliography.

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