Works:
Works by
(1702-1745)Isaac Greenwood
| 1726 | An Experimental Course on Mechanical Philosophy. Greenwood, a principal participant in the 1721 Boston smallpox controversy, is responsible for the first printed coursebook in popular science published in America. On October 26, he delivers the first lecture course on science in New England. |
| 1731 | A Philosophical Discourse Concerning the Mutability and Changes in the Material World. Greenwood composes this work upon the death of Thomas Hollis, a benefactor of Harvard, describing the unity of man and God, man and his soul, and man and nature, which he finds are all governed by the laws of perpetual motion. The text demonstrates how American thinkers are coming to rely on science to explain life and events in the eighteenth century. |
