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Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a
Reymond received a doctorate from the
Swiss
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theologian
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, philosopher
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( logician) and historian of science.
Life
Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva
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in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, ''Logique et mathématiques'', was reviewed by Bertrand Russell
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in ''Mind
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''. Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget. In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
.
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'', 1949References
1874 births 1958 deaths Philosophers of science Historians of science Swiss philosophers Swiss Protestants University of Geneva alumni Academic staff of the University of Lausanne Academic staff of the University of Neuchâtel {{Switzerland-philosopher-stub