Les Principes de la Philosophie. Escrits en Latin, par René Descartes

by René Descartes, Raymond Vieussens

$9,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Association copy of the scarce edition in French of Descartes’ magnum opus, bearing the manuscript ex-libris of Raymond Vieussens (1635-1715), important anatomist and Royal Physician to Louis XIV. “Without Descartes, the seventeenth-century mechanization of physiological conceptions would have been inconceivable,” notes the DSB. Drawing directly on the dualistic theories of..... More

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