Alexander Richardson (Puritan intellectual)

Alexander Richardson (c1565-1613?) was an English logician.^[1]

Life

Richardson was a Master of Arts at Queens' College, Cambridge.^[2] He also tutored at George Walker's house in Barking, Essex.^[3]

Works

Richardson wrote a logic textbook in the Ramist tradition, The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. The book was first published in London in 1629 and enlarged in 1657.^[4]