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tražite da biste je i pronašli u digitalnim knjižnicama. (MMJ)
Ključne riječi: modeli digitalizacije rijetke knjige; Google Books, ECHO; Joseph Priestley,
Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday; škotsko prosvjetiteljstvo, John
Robison, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Thomson, John Leslie, John Playfair
FROM PRIESTLEY TO FARADAY: DIGITISATION OF THE
EARLY RECEPTION OF BOŠKOVIĆ’S NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY ON THE BRITISH ISLES (1772–1855)
The most influential early reception of Bošković’s natural philosophy
on the British Isles should include the following books and papers, compiled
chronologically according to publication:
1. Joseph Priestley, The history and present state of discoveries relating
to vision, light, and colours (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1772), with
chapter on Bošković: “Chapter III. Of the extreme subtilty and momentum
of light, and M. Boscovich’s general hypothesis,” pp. 383–394;
2. Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions relating to matter and the spirit (London:
Printed for J. Johnson, 1777), in “Section II. Of impenetrability, as ascribed
to matter,” pp. 11–23, with extensive quotation on Bošković on
pp. 19–23, borrowed from the previous book;
3. John Robison, “On the motion of light, as affected by refracting and
reflecting substances, which are also in motion,” Transactions of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh 2 (1790), pp. 83–111, figg. 1–4, with the
datation of the reading “Read by Mr Playfair, April 7, 1788,” which
contains also the admiration for Bošković’s Theory and the criticism
of Bošković’s two optical papers printed in 1785;
4. Dugald Stewart, Elements of the philosophy of the human mind, the
second edition, corrected. (London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-
Street; for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand; and W. Creech,
Edinburgh, 1802), on Bošković’s system or theory on pp. 86-87, 90,
400; on Bošković’s analogy of space and time on p. 350;
5. Thomas Thomson, System of chemistry in four volumes, Vol. I. (Edinburgh:
Printed by John Brown, 1802), in “Chap. VI. Of simple bodies
in general,” pp. 380–386, on Bošković’s theory on p. 386;
6. John Leslie, Experimental inquiry into the nature, and propagation, of
heat (Edinburgh: Printed for J. Mawman, 1804), in “Note XI. p. 125,”
165