R

Ramsden, Jesse, 157 , 192 , 197 -8, 199 , 217 ;

achievements of, 196 .

See also Theodolites

Rationalism, 30 , 120 , 348 ;

as a function of language, 117 , 133 -4;

movement of, 86 -8;

reaction against in Sweden, 40 -1, 42 .

See also Wolffianism

Rationality. See Reason

Ratio praelectionum Wolfianarum in mathesin et philosophiam universam (Wolff), 31

Ray, John, 53

Reason:

deductive method of, 33 -4, 293 -7, 377 -8;

inductive method of, 293 , 297 , 377 ;

"naturalization" and mathematization of, 28

Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 61

Recherches (Deluc), 160

Reciprocal crosses:

identity of, 277

Religion, 376

Repeating circle, 193 , 194 -5, 200 , 217 ;

accuracy of, 224 -5

Reproduction. See Plant reproduction

Resmilor , 302 -3

Reynolds, Terry, 293

Rhetoric, 237 ;

of accuracy, 195 -8, 199 , 234 ;

Enlightenment "buzz words," 209 ;

of numbers, 2 , 259 -60;

revolutionary, 229

Rondelet, Jean-Baptiste, 239

Royal Society of London, 146 , 173 ;

collected meteorological reports, 9 -10, 161 -2;

dissension within, 185 -6

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 43 , 299

Roy, William, 179 , 184 -6, 187 , 191 -2;

rhetorical resources of, 195 -6, 198 ;

rift with Ramsden, 197 -8;

role in Paris-Greenwich triangulation, 186 , 188 -90

Runeburg, E.O., 353 -5