Principia philosophiae

by René Descartes

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Amsterdam: Louis Elzevier, 1644. First edition of the charter of the mechanical universe — the book in which Descartes published his complete system of nature, from the first principles of knowledge to the constitution of the heavens and the earth, and in which the laws of nature received their first systematic statement in print: that matter remains in its state of rest or motion until something changes it, and that

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