‎SALIMBENI, FILIPPO.‎
‎Saggio di Filosofia Morale e di Metematica Elementaire che il Signor Filippo Salimbeni Veronese si propone di dare pubblicamente nel collegio d'educazione diretto da' PP. Barnabiti in Milano.‎

‎Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1808. 4to. Uncut in original blue wrappers. Chipping to backstrip. A paper label to foot of back-strip. (2), 76 pp. a. 11 double-page folded engraved plates (geometrical figs). Printed on good paper, clean and fine, apart from a minor stain to 2 leaves.‎

Reference : 43855

‎First edition. In this scarce and unusual work Salimbini combines moral philosophy with elementary mathematics. In the first part he discusses aspects of moral philosophy, discussiong the ideas of Spinoza, Hobbes, Bayle, Wolff, Pufendorff etc. while examining questiions of moral obligation, freedom of the will, atheism etc.The socond part is concerned with the elements of mathematics, discussiong the calculus, logarithmns, arithmetic, geometry, proportions and different kinds of equations, spherical geometry etc.‎