Discours de la méthode
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Los 68 | Discours de la méthode
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First edition of the author's first published work, the foundation of all modern scientific and philosophic thought. In the first part Descartes sets out his method of inquiry, and then illustrates it in three essays on optics, meteorology and geometry. “It is no exaggeration to say that Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first of modern scientists; in both branches of learning his influence has been vast” (PMM). "Descartes's purpose is to find the simple indestructible proposition which gives to the universe and thought their order and system. Three points are made: the truth of thought, when thought is true to itself (thus, cogito, ergo sum), the inevitable elevation of its partial state in our finite consciousness to its full state in the infinite existence of God, and the ultimate reduction of the material universe to extension and local movement' (PMM). His discussion of Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood was the first by a prominent foreign scholar. Descartes was called to Stockholm in 1649 as philosopher to Queen Christina, but did not survive his first winter and died there in 1650. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 81; Grolier/Horblit 24; Guibert, Bib. Descartes, 1; NLM/Krivatsky 3114; Norman 621; PMM 129,
Quarto (206 x 152mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous text illustrations and diagrams (title dampstained, intermittent paler dampstain within, mostly to lower margin; wormtrail at top edge from 2H-2O, affecting letters in running header; marginal tear from foot of 2S4, top paper edge from 2Y to end worn with marginal loss, thin wormtrail in last two gatherings of contents leaves catching a few letters). 19th century half red morocco, spine gilt with raised bands (well rubbed, tips showing). Provenance: "Perriquet" (inscription at foot of title) – Mr. William H. Buckler (19th century inscription on verso of title) – illegible removed stamp on title.
| Künstler: | René Descartes (1596 - 1650) |
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| Herkunftsort: | Frankreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gedruckte Bücher |
| Künstler: | René Descartes (1596 - 1650) |
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| Herkunftsort: | Frankreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gedruckte Bücher |
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