Arnold Reymond

Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science.

Life The grave of Reymond and his wife Marie-Louise, née Maurer (1885-1976), at the cemetery of Pully. Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathématiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind. Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget. In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.

Works Logique et mathématiques: essai historique et critique sur le nombre infini, Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste, 1908 Histoire des sciences exactes et naturelles dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Paris: 1924. Translated as History of the sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927 Les penseurs de la Grèce; histoire de la philosophie antique, 1928 Les principes de la logique et la critique contemporaine, 1932 Philosophie spiritualiste; études et méditations, recherches critiques, 1942 L'Histoire des sciences et la philosophie des sciences, 1949