Dear Steven, List: Thank you for posting these files prepared by CSP's brother and father.
These files very definitely add support to your assertions concerning the familial logic entailments that are often reflected in CSP texts. It is most unfortunate that logicians and philosophers fail to consider or even acknowledge the magnitude of these familial entailments on CSP's texts. These entailments are readily apparent from a chemist's perspective. Perhaps I will comment a bit on these these texts at a later time after I have digested them a bit further. Cheers Jerry On Mar 13, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote: > > I am posting these files to enable the wider Peirce community to appreciate > the environment and influences upon Charles. This is also an OCR'd searchable > version of A System Of Analytic Mechanics - a treatise by Charles' father, > Benjamin Peirce, and taught at Harvard. Prepared by me in the past few years. > > You will note in this text many of the ideas that you have come to attribute > to Charles and you will note, while Peirce does not use the term "covariance" > that this is precisely what he describes, anticipating Einstein's claims for > the epistemic power of general covariance. > > The context of the work is Newtonian mechanics and recall that Peirce spent a > good deal of time with the Celestial Mechanics of LaPlace, playing a major > role in the translation by his mentor Nathaniel Bowditch. > > > Benjamin Peirce - 1855 - A System Of Analytic Mechanics.pdf > > > Regards, > Steven > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > >
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