THE 



EDINBURGH 

 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 



Art. I. — Biographical STcetch of the late Dugald Stewart^ 

 Esq. F. R. SS. Lond. and Ed. 



Although Mr Dugald Stewart was not the Author of any 

 express work directly connected with the mathematical or 

 physical sciences, yet he has been pronounced by a competent 

 judge* to have been " a distinguished writer in the higher de- 

 partments of Mathematics;" and from this cause, as well as from 

 the happy application which he made of his mathematical and 

 physical knowledge to illustrate the philosophy of the human 

 mind, we have considered it not unappropriate, in the pages 

 of a scientific Journal, to record the labours of a man, who, 

 while he was one of the brightest ornaments of his own coun- 

 try, contributed so powerfully to advance the intellectual and 

 moral interests of his species. 



Dugald Stewart was born at Edinburgh on the 2Sd No- 

 vember 1753, and was the only son who survived the age 

 of infancy of the celebrated Dr Matthew Stewart, Professor of 

 Mathematics in the College of Edinburgh, and Miss Stewart, 

 daughter of Mr A. Stewart, Writer to the Signet. When a child, 

 his health was feeble and precarious, and it was only by the 

 greatest care that his parents succeeded in re-establishing it. 

 At the age of seven he went to the High School, where his 

 talents were favourably displayed, and after completing the usual 

 routine of instruction at that academy, he was admitted a 

 student in the University. Under the roof of his father, he 



* Davies Gilbert, Esq. M, P. the distinguished President of the Royal 

 Society of London. 



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