CHARLES S. PEIRCE
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Who is the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced? The answer "Charles S. Peirce" is uncontested, because any second would be so far behind as not to be worth nominating. [He was] mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, metrologist, spectroscopist, engineer, inventor; psychologist, philologist, lexicographer, historian of science, mathematical economist, lifelong student of medicine; book reviewer, dramatist, actor, sh
Waymark Code: WMWX
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2005
Views: 35
Marker Name: Charles S. Peirce
County: Pike
Date Dedicated: 1948/6/1
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 6 & 209, NE of Milford
Category: Professions & Vocations, Medicine & Science
Marker Text:
The noted philosopher, logician, scientist and founder of pragmatism lived in this house from 1887 until his death in 1914. America's most original philosopher and greatest logician, a great part of his work was written here.