| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Cadwallader Colden: A Figure of the American Enlightenment. By Alfred R. Hoermann. (Westport: Greenwood, 2002. xiv, 204 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-313-32159-0.)
One of colonial British America's true polymaths, Cadwallader Colden was born to Scottish parents in Ireland in 1688 and studied medicine in Edinburgh before seeking a political career in New York after 1718. There have been decades of scholarly attention to early American politics; Colden is now best known as a lieutenant governor who became a loyalist during the American Revolution.	1
Alfred R. Hoermann's study presents a different view of the man, exploring instead his multiple engagements with the natural sciences and medicine: his botanizing and his correspondence with Linnaeus, his failed attempt to perfect Isaac Newton's account of gravity by making it fully mechanical, and the debate with the Anglican divine Samuel Johnson over his alleged philosophical materialism. Hoermann covers all those topics and more, offering some careful textual exegeses.	. . .

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