Scholae Academicae
Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century
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- Author: Christopher Wordsworth, Rector of Glaston, Rutland
- Date Published: July 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108003056
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Christopher Wordsworth (1848–1938), was a great-nephew of the poet, and part of a Victorian dynasty of Cambridge academics. In this book, published in 1877, he describes the state of the English universities in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the reforms following the 1852 Royal Commission. He reviews the historic areas of study from the arts and mathematics to the 'trivials' - grammar, logic and rhetoric - and discusses the introduction of more recent disciplines such as physics, anatomy, chemistry, mineralogy and botany. His stated aim is to preserve an account of 'the methods and processes of University Study through which were educated the minds which have done so much to make our University and our Country what they are'. A companion volume, Wordsworth's Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108003056
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.67kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. General introduction
2. The Tripos
3. The sophs' schools before 1765
4. Acts and opponencies after 1772
5. The Senate House
6. The admission of questionists
7. The mathematicks
8. The trivial arts
9. Humanity
10. Morals and casuistry
11. Law
12. Modern studies
13. Oriental studies
14. Physick
15. Anatomy
16. Chemistry
17. Geology and mineralogy
18. Botany
19. The degree of M.A.
20. Musick
21. Astronomy
22. Conclusion
Appendices
Index.
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