Record Number: 5118
Reading Experience:
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.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 20 Nov 1817 and 30 Apr 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Kirkcaldy
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Exposition du systeme du monde
Genre:Other religious, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFirst published 1796
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5118
Source: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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5118, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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.
