SMELLIE, William. The Philosophy of Natural History. With an introduction by Paul Wood. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. [reprinted from the 1790-99 editions. 2001].

SMELLIE, William. The Philosophy of Natural History. With an introduction by Paul Wood. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. [reprinted from the 1790-99 editions. 2001].

Two volumes. Original cloth, VG.

For the modern reader, Smellie's 'Philosophy of Natural History' is a valuable work because it conjures up a comprehensive picture of the intellectual and social world we now call the Scottish Enlightenment. [it] tells us about the state of natural history as a field of knowledge in the second half of the eighteenth century, and the relations which that field had with other domains such as moral philosophy and religion. It reminds us of the rich medical and scientific culture of Edinburgh in the period …….. from the introduction.