Andrew Reid

Andrew Reid (died c. 1767) was a Scottish writer. Life Reid moved to London, probably about 1720, and interested himself in literary and scientific subjects. In 1728, he launched The Present State of the Republick of Letters, a periodical which he edited until 1736, when it ceased; two volumes appeared each year. An influence on the publication was the earlier editor Michel de La Roche. Reid attended James Thomson in his last illness, in 1748. It is presumed that he died in 1767. Works In 1732, Reid published an abridgment of Isaac Newton's The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, of which another edition appeared at Dublin in 1782. In 1733, in with John Gray, he edited an Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions from 1720 to 1732; it was published in 2 vols.