Journal of natural philosophy

London, England - May 21, 1815, Bloomsbury, England) He served as a civil servant at the East India Company before he devoted himself to scientific pursuits and journalism. In 1797 he founded The Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, generally known as Nicholsons Journal, which he published monthly until 1814. 

Smithson Tennant, Philos. Trans., 1804, 94,411 Nicholson s Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, 1805, 10, 24. 

Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry and the arts 2nd series... 

Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts Magazin fur den neuesten Zustand der Naturkunde Allgemeines Journal der Chemie (+ No. 52)... 

There were from the late eighteenth century informal scientific journals, in Britain published by Alexander Tilloch (Philosophical Magazine), William Nicholson (Journal of Natural Philosophy), and Thomas Thomson (Annals of Philosophy) Nicholson and Thomson were both chemists with substantial publications in the science. Taxes on knowledge , which inhibited periodicals, were not lifted until the mid century, and postage was expensive until then also. But nevertheless in their heyday these journals, offering speedy publication, had published some original papers, reprinted papers from elsewhere, reviewed books and... 

Then as now, new work appeared in new journals. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society made no mention of electrochemistry. The new work in electrochemistry, by Humphry Davy, appeared in the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and founded by the... 

Several variants of chapter 1, each with some material from later chapters, have appeared elsewhere State Simplifications Nature, Space, and People, Occasional Paper No. 1, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, November 1994 State Simplifications, Journal of Political Philosophy 4, no. 2 (1995) 1-42 State Simplifications Nature, Space, and People, in Ian Shapiro and Russell Hardin, eds.. Political Order, vol. 38 of Nomos (New York New York University Press, 1996) 42-85 "Freedom Contra Freehold State Simplification, Space, and People in Southeast Asia, in David Kelly and Anthony Reid, eds.. Freedom in Asia (forthcoming) State Simplifications Some Applications to Southeast Asia, Sixth Annual W. F. Wertheim Lecture, Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam, June 1995 and State Simplifications and Practical Knowledge, in Stephen Mar-glin and Stephen Gudeman, eds.. People s Economy, People s Ecology (forthcoming). 

The second paper first appeared in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. The emphasis here is naturally more philosophical and considers such questions as the... 

On commonplace books, see Ann Blair, "Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy The Commonplace Book," Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992) 541-51 Ann Moss, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1996] and Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, 163. 

Blair, Ann. "Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy The Commonplace Book." Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992) 541-51. 

His scientific reading was thorough - his study of the philosophy of nature demonstrates knowledge of German, French and English journals. 

Ostwald, W. 1902. Vorlesungen uber Naturphilosophie Natural Philosophy. London (1911). Ostwald, W. 1904. "Elements and Compounds." Faraday Lectures. London Chemical Society. Ostwald, W. 1909. The Fundamental Principles of Chemistry. London Longmans, Green, Pepper, S. C. 1926. "Emergence." Journal of Philosophy, 23 241-245. 

Jaap van Brakel studied chemical engineering and philosophy, and has taught at universities in the Netherlands, Canada, and Belgium. Until 1980, he worked mainly in physical technology since 1986 he has been a full-time philosopher. He is currently at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Over the years he has published in journals such as Nature, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Logique et Analyse, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Minds and Machines, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Ethical Perspectives. 

Ingemar During, Der Protreptikos" des Aristoteles, in Quellen der Philosophie 9, ed. Rudolph Berlinger (Frankfurt Vittorio Klostermann, 1969), 52—53 (Greek and German). For more on the attitude of the Protrepticus to art and nature, see A. J. Close, Commonplace Theories of Art and Nature in Classical Antiquity and in the Renaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas 30(1969), 467-486. 

Watkins, E. 1998. The Argumentative Stmcture of Kant s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 567-593. 

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