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by Richard Helsham

Helsham was the first professor of natural philosophy at the Trinity College Dublin. Published after his death, Helsham's Lectures were among the first to offer university students a clear, straightforward text from which to study the work of Bacon, Descartes, and Newton. This work was a lasting contribution to physics.

Helsham's A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, edited posthumously by a colleague and former student, Bryan Robinson, were published in 1739. It was one of the earliest textbooks to present the scientific discoveries of Bacon, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton to university students in an understandable manner. The book had an enduring popularity and was a compulsory text for students at Trinity College, Dublin, until 1849. A reprint of the fourth edition of Helsham's work to mark the millennium was part published by the physics department of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1999. ^[1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Richard Helsham, (1683-1738)

Title: A Course Of Lectures In Natural Philosophy

Published: London: Published by Bryan Robinson, printed by J. Nourse, 1739.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Full bound in contemporary etched calf with a red morocco spine label and compartments tooled in gold. Purchased from Black Swan Books, Inc.

External Links

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References

1. ↑ H. T. Welch, ‘Helsham, Richard (1683–1738)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 June 2013