John Robison

John Robison
Naissance	1739
Décès	1805
Nationalité	Britannique
Profession	Scientifique Essayiste

John Robison (4 février, 1739 - 30 janvier, 1805) physicien, inventeur et auteur conspirationniste écossais.

Biographie

Son ouvrage le plus célèbre s'intitule Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities (1797). Robison y explique la Révolution française par un complot maçonnique et des Illuminati. Cette thèse recoupe celle du jésuite français Augustin Barruel.

Théories

Robison accuse les francs-maçons, avant tout du rite français, de complot révolutionnaire. Tout comme Barruel, il indique que les Illuminés de Bavière ont influencé les loges françaises, les incitant à comploter contre l'Etat et leur soufflant l'idée de la Révolution française^[1].

Publications

• Outlines of mechanical philosophy : containing the heads of a course of lectures, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1781.
• Outlines of a course of experimental philosophy, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1784.
• Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities, Edinburgh, 1797.
• Outlines of a course of lectures on mechanical philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Brown, 1803.
• Elements of mechanical philosophy : being the substance of a course of lectures on that science, vol 1, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1804.
• The articles "steam" and "steam-engines" written for the Encyclopedia Britannica, edited by David Brewster with notes and additions by James Watt and a letter on some properties, Edinburgh and London, James Ballantyne & Co. 1818.
• A system of mechanical philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Murray, 1822.

Proofs of Conspiracy, rééditions et documents connexes

• Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities, Edinburgh, 1797 ; 2nd ed. London, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1797 with a Postsript ; 3rd ed. with Postscript, Philadelphia, T. Dobson & W. Cobbet, 1798 ; New York, 1798 ; Dublin 1798 ; Proofs of a Conspiracy, Western Islands, 1900 ; The Illuminati, taken from "Proofs of a world conspiracy", Elizabeth Knauss [1930] ; Proof's [sic!] of a conspiracy, Ram Reprints, 1964 ; Proofs of a conspiracy, Boston, Western Islands, "The Americanist classics", [1967] ; Proofs of a conspiracy, Islands Press, 1978 ; C P a Book Pub, 2002 ISBN 0-944379-69-9 ; Kessinger Publishing, 2003 ISBN 0-7661-8124-3. Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities sur Google Livres
  • Ueber geheime Gesellschaften und deren Gefährlichkeit für Staat und Religion..., translated in german, Königslutter, 1800.
• [Anti-Jacobin], New Lights on Jacobinism, abstracted from Professor Robison’s History of Free Masonry, with an appendix containing an account of Voltaire’s behaviour on his death-bed, and a letter from J. H. Stone to Dr. Priestley, disclosing the principles of Jacobinism. By the author of Jacobinism displayed, Birmingham, E. Piercy, Birmingham, 1798.
• [Cornelius] (pseudonym), Extracts from Professor Robison’s "Proofs of a Conspiracy" & c., with brief reflections on the charges he has exhibited, the evidence he has produced and the merit of his performance, Boston, Manning & Loring, Boston, 1799.
• Seth Payson, Proofs of the real existence, and dangerous tendency, of Illuminism, containing an abstract of what Dr. Robinson and the Abbé Barruel have published on this subject ; with collateral proofs and general observations, Charlestown, 1802 ; Invisible College Press, LLC, 2003 ISBN 1-931468-14-1
• [A Master Mason], Free Masonry. Its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard authors, with a review of [Salem] Town’s Speculative Masonry : its liability to pervert the doctrines of revealed religion discovered, its dangerous tendency exhibited in extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison, and further illustrated in its base service to the Illuminati, New York, 1828.

Notes et références

• Portail de la physique
• Portail de l’Écosse

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