John Fearn

(1768-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fearn, John, 1768-1837 DNB: Fearn, John (1768-1837), philosopher LBT ID: JoFearn1837 VIAF ID: 45096517 LOC ID: n2006180822	B/BAP: 1768 DIED: 1837-12-03
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Scottish philosopher who published A Rationale of the Laws of Cerebral Vision (1830).
REFERENCES TO John Fearn: Charles Lamb to Sir John Stoddart, [9 August 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XIII Found 1: ¶ 6 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1827 Found 1: ¶ 5