Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science.
Life
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.Bertrand Russell, Mind 18 (April 1909), p.299-301 Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget.Fernando Vidal, Piaget before Piaget, 1994, p.123 In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.The collected papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6, p.60
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
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