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DESCARTES, Rene |
| Title: |
L'HOMME DE RENE DESCARTES, ET LA FORMATIONE DU FOETUS |
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Avec les Remarques de Louis de la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajoute Le Monde ou Traite de la Lumiere du mesme Autheur. Second Edition, reveue & corrigee. Paris, Theodore Girard. 1677. 4to. pp. (lxiv), 511, (ix - Index). Title with woodcut printer's device; many woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt; ends of spine reinforced. Light waterstain at top of majority of leaves, text clean. |
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* This is the second edition of the French translation of Descartes' De Homine, sometimes called the first book on physiology; in his description of responses to nervous stimuli, he is credited with originating the theory of reflexes. Descartes (1596-1650) was prepared to publish De Homine in 1633 but decided to withhold it when he learned of Galileo's condemnation by the Church; therefore the first (latin) edition was not published until 1662, 12 years after his death -HoH. Krivatsky 3118, Osler 933. £475 |
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