Henry Regnand | |
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Henry Regnand (18th century) was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in logic and metaphysics. [1]
Henry Regnand | |
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| Died | |
| Occupation | Philosophy |
Henry Regnand (18th century) was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in logic and metaphysics. [1]
Little is known as yet about the private life of Regnand. He probably was a Dominican friar, but this is still unconfirmed sufficiently by documentary evidence. As an academic, he flourished during the first decade of the 18th century. At that time, he was active teaching philosophy at the Dominican Studium Generale of Portus Salutis at Valletta, Malta. No portrait of Regnand seems to have survived.
Despite the dearth of biographical data concerning Regnand, we do possess a number of interesting manuscripts which bear witness to his expertise and ability at philosophical speculation. All of these documents are held at the archive of the Dominicans at Valletta, Malta. They are written by Regnand in his neat and beautiful handwriting. All of them are in Latin, and follow the typical style, in content as in methodology, of Scholasticism. Some of his works are interesting philosophical examinations of natural phenomena, especially those observable in outer space. As yet none of them have ever been transliterated, much less translated into any modern language, or even freshly read and studied. They are the following:
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