{"id":1053,"date":"2013-09-13T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:15","slug":"john-stevenson-1695-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/13\/john-stevenson-1695-1775\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stevenson (1695-1775)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Stevenson<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chair of logic and rhetoric at Edinburgh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Used Heineccius, <em>Elementa philosophiae rationalis et moralis<\/em> as a textbook when Alexander Carlyle studied there in 1735 (Haakonnsen, <em>Natural law<\/em> 89*)<\/li>\n<li>Innovations: first in Scotland to lecture on rhetoric in English, introduced study of belles-lettres and literary style (<em>ODNB<\/em>*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*For references, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Stevenson Chair of logic and rhetoric at Edinburgh Teaching Used Heineccius, Elementa philosophiae rationalis et moralis as a textbook when Alexander Carlyle studied there in 1735 (Haakonnsen, Natural law 89*) Innovations: first in Scotland to lecture on rhetoric in English, introduced study of belles-lettres and literary style (ODNB*) *For references, see the Site Bibliography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,52],"tags":[59,7,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}