Alexander Richardson (c1565-1613?) was an English logician.[1]

Life

Richardson was a Master of Arts at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2] He also tutored at George Walker's house in Barking, Essex.[3]

Works

Richardson wrote a logic textbook in the Ramist tradition, The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. The book was first published in London in 1629 and enlarged in 1657.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson". Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  2. ↑ "The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson". Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  3. ↑ Kennedy, Rick and Thomas Knoles (1999). "Increase Mather's 'Catechismus Logicus': A Translation and an Analysis of the Role of a Ramist Catechism at Harvard". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 109: 155.
  4. ↑ Kennedy, Rick and Thomas Knoles (1999). "Increase Mather's 'Catechismus Logicus': A Translation and an Analysis of the Role of a Ramist Catechism at Harvard". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 109: 155.
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