Article ID: CBB764672821

Did Lewis Carroll Own a Copy of George Boole's Laws of Thought? An Argument from the Sale Catalogues (2018)

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Private libraries of scientists offer valuable information on their character, work, and acquaintances. Charles L Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) constructed an impressive library of several thousand volumes. The sale catalogue of Carroll's library reveals that it contained at his death most of the major logic works that would be expected for a British mathematical logician of the time. However, there is dispute as to the presence of the most important logic book of all: George Boole's Laws of thought (1854). The absence of this work would make both an unfortunate and an intriguing gap. This paper explains the source of this dispute and introduces a new argument from the sale catalogues centred on the dissemination of the books after the sale of the library.

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Authors & Contributors
Abeles, Francine F.
Violet Moller
Nasifoglu, Yelda
Dunning, David E.
Cohen, Yvonne
Wilson, Robin J.
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Books
Biographies
Libraries and archives
Mathematicians
Time Periods
19th century
Early modern
Medieval
20th century, early
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Toledo (Spain)
Baghdad (Iraq)
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