Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard: Charles Morton's Logick System and William Brattle's Compendium of Logick

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Charles Morton was transatlantic Puritanism's most famous educator at the time of his arrival in Boston in 1686. His Logick System advocated the vigorous Aristotelian logic popularized by Melanchthon. William Brattle, a generation younger than Morton, was one of Harvard's most beloved tutors....