Arnold Reymond

Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science.

Arnold Reymond
portrait from 1933 by Oskár Lázár

Life

The grave of Reymond and his wife Marie-Louise, née Maurer (1885-1976), at the cemetery of Pully.

Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathématiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind.^[1] Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget.^[2] In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.^[3]

Works

• Logique et mathématiques: essai historique et critique sur le nombre infini, Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste, 1908
• Histoire des sciences exactes et naturelles dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Paris: 1924. Translated as History of the sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927^[4]
• Les penseurs de la Grèce; histoire de la philosophie antique, 1928
• Les principes de la logique et la critique contemporaine, 1932
• Philosophie spiritualiste; études et méditations, recherches critiques, 1942
• L'Histoire des sciences et la philosophie des sciences, 1949