Alexander Richardson
English logician
About Alexander Richardson
Lived 1565 – 1613 (aged 47–48).
Alexander Richardson (c1565-1613?) was an English logician.
Life Richardson was a Master of Arts at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also tutored at George Walker's house in Barking, Essex.
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.
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English logician
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Alexander Richardson was born in 1565.
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Alexander Richardson died in 1613.
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· DBpedia: Alexander Richardson (Puritan intellectual)
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