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{{Infobox scientist
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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1701|8|14}}
|birth_place = [[Aberdeen]]
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|workplaces = [[Marischal College]]
|alma_mater = [[Marischal College]]
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|relatives = Thomas Blackwell (father), Christian Johnston (mother), Alexander Blackwell (brother)
|spouse = Barbara Black
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|influenced = Herder
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'''Thomas Blackwell''' the younger (4 August 1701 – 6 March 1757) was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment."<ref>Wykes, David L. (2011). "The Revd John Aikin senior Kibworth School and Warrington Academy." In: ''Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860''. Cambridge University Press, p. 31.</ref>
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<blockquote>And what is more surprising, he did it before Montesquieu<ref>Montesquieu (1748). ''De l'Esprit des Loix ou du Rapport que les Loix Doivent Avoir avec la Constitution de Chaque Gouvernement, les Moeurs, le Climat, la Religion, le Commerce''. Geneve: Barrillot & Fils.</ref> had put into circulation his theory on the influence of climate upon the laws and, therefore, upon all human social relations... This work [''Enquiry''] follows the same mental scheme used by Taine, except for the naturalistic technique. Blackwell does not speak of mesology; but, as the book goes on, we see that none of the factors identified by the French critic escaped his observation and analysis.</blockquote>
Blackwell's theory of the formative effects of climate<ref>"It's essential at the outset to understand the meaning of climate in the eighteenth century. It does not have its meteorological denotation; instead, Johnson defines it as 'A space upon the surface of the Earth, measured from the Equator to the polar circles in each of which spaces the longest day is half-an-hour longer' (Dictionary, 10th E. [London, 1792]). Cf. the 1771
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==Publications==
* (1735). ''An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer''.
* (1746). ''The Dangers of the Rebellion, and our Happy Deliverance, Considered, and a Suitable Consequent Behaviour Recommended''.
* (1747). ''Proofs of the Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer''.
* (1748). ''Letters Concerning Mythology''.
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