Webb, Martha Ellen,2013-08-162013-08-161981http://hdl.handle.net/11244/4874In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers extended the methods and concepts of contemporary natural philosophy to their study of mind. One of the earliest to accept the Newtonian conception of man as analogous to nature and the Newtonian conception of mind as complex, corpusculix, 310 leaves ;History of Science.Thesis