Talk:Andrew Michael Ramsay

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 02:15, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Formatting is awful....
We don't do "(see: X)" inline, nor do we use en-dashes the way they are used herein. This seems a little too well-written for having such poor formatting. Are we sure this wasn't lifted outright from a source? MSJapan (talk) 20:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Awfull ?

 * Your rewrite makes out as though Ramsay travelled to Rijnsburg to meet Pierre Poiret and Jeanne Guyon. Jeanne Guyon was not in Rijnsburg.
 * Do as you please but be reasonable about it.
 * Lunarian (talk) 16:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it was unclear from the original what was going on. If one was at a different location, then that can be fixed. MSJapan (talk) 19:53, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Then fix it.
 * Lunarian (talk) 22:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. MSJapan (talk) 03:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Removed uncited reference
I removed the entry for Leibniz from "Works cited" because the article does not cite it. It was given as


 * Leibniz: "Discours sur la Théologie Naturelle des Chinois" in "Bibliothèque des Mythes et des Religions" L'Herne Paris,1987

This is correspondence written at the end of his life and never sent. Here are some references, should changes to the text of the article come to justify the citation:


 * Discourse on the natural theology of the Chinese. Tr. by Henry Rosemont, Jr., and Daniel J. Cook. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii (Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, No. 4), 1977.
 * In C. Kortholdt, Leibnitii Epistolas ad diversos (Leipzig, 1735).
 * R. Loosen and F. Vonessen, Zwei Briefs über das binäre Zahlensystem und die Chinesische Philosophie (Antaios, 8:2, 1966).

Some web discussions seem to confound this with the Leibniz-Clarke controversy, correspondence also late in Leibniz's life (and actually exchanged). Some references:


 * Samuel Clarke, A collection of papers which passed between the late Learned Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke (London, 1717); in H.G. Alexander, The Leibniz-Clarke correspondence, together with Extracts of Newton’s ‘Principia’ and ‘Opticks’ (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956); in André Robinet, Correspondance Leibniz-Clarke présentée d’après les manuscrits originaux des bibliothèques de Hanovre et de Londres (Paris: PUF, 1957); in Eloy Rada, La polémica Leibniz-Clarke (Madrid: Taurus, 1980); in Volkmar Schüller, Der Leibniz-Clarke-Briefwechsel, (Berlin: Akademie, 1991). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bn (talk • contribs) 22:08, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Military service
I'm having problems with Ramsay and the "English Auxiliaries". The only source I've found has serious issues and cites Wikipedia as a primary source. Having just read Bernheim's short biography, I also have trouble constructing a timeline where I could fit his military service. Any sources, before it goes? Fiddlersmouth (talk) 01:51, 16 February 2016 (UTC)