Ebook: ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith )

Reflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment. Included are histories of astronomy, ancient logic, and ancient physics; essays on the ''imitative'' arts and the affinity between music, dancing, and poetry; and a critical review of Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary. which Smith originally published in the Edinburgh Review (1755-56).