Record Number: 12953
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" and Newton's "principia" constitute my [stock] of this sort - I got Lucans "Pharsalia" also, and some little extracts of Fenelons "dialogues des morts". If there are any of these (except Newton for which you would be [obliged] to wait awhile) that you wish to see - they are ready for you. I had read Bossut before - and have not done much at him of late. Neither have I read any quantity of Wood yet, having been nibbling at the "Principia" (which with all my struggling, I come but ill at understanding - indeed in some places I don't understand it at all) ever since I came home. Of Lucan I have not read above seven lines.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1816 and 15 Feb 1816
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Annan
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:Teacher, later man of letters
Religion:Christian
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:Pharsalia
Genre:Classics, History, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
brought from Edinburgh
Source Information:
Record ID:12953
Source:n/a
Editor:Charles Richard Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, NC
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:I
Page:71-2
Additional Comments:
Letter to Robert Mitchell
Citation:
Charles Richard Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, NC, 1970), I, p. 71-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12953, accessed: 03 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Had read little of the text as yet