Bruxelles, A.Vromant 1880 156pp., belle reliure cart. (plats marbrés, dos en cuir avec titre doré), dans la série "Petite bibliothèque chrétienne", 16cm.
Paris, Editions Aimery Somogy/Gründ, 1956. 14 x 18, 64 pp., 24 planches en couleurs, cartonnage d'édition + jaquette, bon état.
P., Angot, 1668, un volume in 4 relié en demi-basane, tranches rouges (reliure XVIIIème siècle), quelques cahiers uniformément jaunis), 303pp., 23pp., pp. 1 à 127 (TRAITE DE LA MECHANIQUE composé par Monsieur DESCARTES. De plus l'abrégé de LA MUSIQUE du mesme autheur mis en françois...), 1 page non chiffrée (errata et privilège), figures dans le texte
---- Troisième édition du Discours de la méthode ; EDITION ORIGINALE de la MECANIQUE et première édition française de LA MUSIQUE ---- EX-LIBRIS Auguste LACOMBE sur la page de titre ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- EN FRANCAIS DANS LE TEXTE N° 90 pour l'édition originale ---- "It is no exageration to say that DESCARTES was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first of modern scientists - It is no exageration to say that Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first of modern scientists - Descartes' contributions to the mathematical, physical and anatomical sciences were many, but his major contribution was his Discourse on method. In this he discussed Harvey's circulation, advanced the necessity of mathematical proof and proposed accepting those thngs that cannot be doubted. He here pesented his system of phiosophy cogito ergo sum. He explained his method of analytic geometry and treated on optics and meteors" (Printing and the Mind of Man N° 129, Horblit p. 24 et Dibner N° 81)**8045/ARM3
Paris Librairie philosophique J.Vrin 1960 138p 1 volume IN12 broché. Introduction et notes par E.Gilson.
Paris, Boivin et Cie, 1937. In-8 (205x135mm) broché, XV - 144 p. Quelques petites marques au crayon de papier (très facilement effaçables) ; très bon état général.
LIBRAIRIE PHILOSOPHIQUE J. VRIN. 1965. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Non coupé. 154 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 190-Philosophie occidentale moderne
Introduction et notes par Guy Durandin chargé d'enseignement à la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Lyon. Classification Dewey : 190-Philosophie occidentale moderne
Librairie philosophique j. Vrin. 1970. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 154 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
P., Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1668, un volume in 4 relié en plein veau, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (habile restauration à un coin), (28), 477pp., (1pp.), (1), 1 PLANCHE hors texte représentant les corps en mouvement, nombreuses figures dans le texte
---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE --- Traduction (du latin en français) par l'Abbé PICOT ---- "The principia philosophia contains Descartes'famous vortex theory by which he tried to reconcile Copernican astronomy with biblical teaching. It also contains the first scientific theory of magnetism". "The most comprehensive of all Descartes'works. Dedicated to the Princess Elizabeth, its three treatises embrace the whole of his philosophy, with the exception of the moral. Descartes'design in this treatise was the elaboration of a general theory which would account for the creation and the structur of the world. At the outset he scorfully rejected the whole apparatus of qualitates occultae, employed so freely by the scholastics, and in its place he tried to substitute a rational explanation of the phenomena of nature grounded upon human intelligence and erected upon the mathematical model. In this way he indicated the only solid path ever pursued by physical science, namely, its reduction to the laws of mathematics... On account of its intelligible assuptions, the theory established by Descartes withstook for more than a century all efforts to dislodge it. Fundamentally it assumed all space to be filled with matter, and this, having been endowed in the beginning with motion, has in course of time fallen into a series of vortices in which the sun and the fixed stars, the heavens and the earth, planets and comets are carried. By thus comparing the motion of the celestial bodies with that of terrestrial bodies caught up and floating in whirpools of water, Descartes provided an analogy which at least had the merit of plausibility". (Scott p. 158). "In part I, Descartes sets out the basic principles of his investigation pursuing the methods developed in his Discourse on Method. Part II is devoted to the nature of the physical world and the means by which we may comprehend it. Fundamental to Descartes'physical theories was his conviction that all space was occupied, space was identified with matter, all matter was infinitely extensible and infinnitely divisible ; within the context of this theory a vacuum was impossible as was the existence of atoms. This made for a theory highly compatible with catholic doctrine... Also presented in Part II are Descartes' three laws of motion. Part III not only presents Descartes' conception of structure of the world, but reprensents the first serious attempt at a mechanical explanation of the solar system. The Vortex Theory boldly attempted to reduce the phenomena of the universe to a single mechanical principle...". (Bibliotheca mechanica 1st latin ed. pp. 91/92) ---- DSB IV ---- Des principes de la connaissance humaine - Des principes des choses matérielles - Du monde visible - De la terre**6373/arm3
P., Nicolas Le Gras & Angot, 1663 (tome 1), 16859 (tome 2), 1667 (tome 3), 3 VOLUMES in 4 reliés en plein veau, dos ornés de fers dorés (reliures de l'époque), (reliure du tome 3 différente et usée : mors fendus, coiffes et coins usés ; petit trou sans gravité dans la marge de la page de titre au tome 2, petites étiquettes collées dans la marge des pages titres des tomes 1 et 2, rousseurs et quelques cahiers uniformément jaunis), T.1 : (12), 540pp., T.2 : (12), 564pp., (1), T.3 : (12), 646pp., nombreuses figures dans le texte
---- EDITION COMPLETE DES LETTRES DE DESCARTES PUBLIEES PAR CLERSELIER ---- Les tomes 2 et 3 sont en éditions originales ; le tome 1 en seconde édition ---- . "After DESCARTES's death, CLERSELIER published three volumes of Lettres". (DSB)**63980/6398/p1
Paris, Hatier-Boivin, bibliothèque de philosophie, 1955. In-8 (200x130mm) broché, 332 p. Quelques rousseurs et marques au crayon à papier. Bon état général.
P., Girard, 1677, un volume in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), 32 feuillets non chiffrés, 511pp., (1pp.), 4 feuilles non chiffrés, NOMBREUX BOIS GRAVES DANS LE TEXTE
---- Seconde édition REVUE et CORRIGEE ---- EXEMPLAIRE DU DOCTEUR et CELEBRE OBSTETRICIEN TARNIER avec son ex-libris contrecollé au verso du premier plat de couverture ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Ce traité avec les Remarques de Louis de la Forge et la préface de Mr. Schuyl comporte 404 pages et Le Monde qui suit immédiatement le Traité occupe les pages 405 à 511". (Guibert p. 204) ---- "Descartes considered the human body a material machine, directed by a rational soul located in the pineal body. This book was the first attempt to cover the whole field of 'animal physiology'. The work is really a physiological appendix to his Discourse on method. The French text appeared in full in 1664". (Garrison N° 574)**8064.D1
Amsterdam, Janssonium Juniorum, 1658, 3 parties en un volume in 4, plein parchemin à recouvrement (reliure postérieure), titre en noir et en rouge, (5), 226pp., 199pp., 108pp.
---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A la suite des méditations se trouvent les objections que Descartes s'était faites à lui-même et celles que lui avaient adressées Gaterus, Hobbes, Arnauld, le P. Mersenne, Gassendi et quelques autres savants avec les réponses qu'il y fit. Enfin la troisième partie comprend une lettre à Gisbert Voet". (Guibert p. 53)**6381/ARM2A
P., Boivin, 1933, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 223pp.**6399/K5
Chicago, Open court publishing co, 1925, un volume in 4 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 1 portrait, 12pp., 246pp., figures dans le texte
---- Texte en français et en anglais**6383/o5ar
Amstelodami, Blaviana, 1692. 155 X 200 mm. relié cartonnage d'attente. Edition comprenant 3 parties, comportant 1 portrait gravé en frontispice et des figures in et hors texte. 20 ff. n. ch., 222 pp.; 8 ff. n. ch., 248 pp.; 12 ff. n. ch., 92 pp., 2 ff. d'index; 7 ff. n. ch., 191 pp.; 164 pp.; 88 pp. Notre exemplaire a été retiré de sa reliure et revêtu d'un cartonnage d'attente. Reliure défraîchie.
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Amstelodami, Apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1677, 3 textes reliés en 1 volume in-8 de 160x210 mm environ, (2) ff., 1 faux titre avec une table au dos, 1 frontispice avec "Typographus ad lectorum" au dos, (4) ff. (titre, epistola dedicat.), (14) ff. (epistola auctoris, index), 222 pp., (8) ff. (titre, index), 248 pp., (11) ff. (titre, ad lectorem, epistola, responsio), 92 pp., 2 ff.(index), (2) ff., reliure plein vélin d'époque, enrichi d'un portrait en frontispice gravé, de nombreuses figures dans le texte, de lettrines et culs-de-lampe. Ex-libris contrecollé sur le premier contreplat et tampon sur la page de titre, rousseurs, petite mouillure sur la page de faux-titre, départ de fente sur mors, sinon bon état.
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Lugduni Batavorum (Leyden), Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum, 1662. 4to. Contemporary full calf with gilt title-laebl to spine. (36), 121, (1) pp. + 10 plates. Complete with all 56 woodcut and engraved text-illustrations (many of which are full-page) and the 10 full-page engraved plates (several folded), one of which is the heart-plate with the 6 moveable parts, the Cardiac-flaps (of which only the smallest is missing). One folded plate cropped at fore-margin.
First edition of Descartes' seminal treatise on man, the first European textbook of physiology, constituting an epochal work of modern thought, defining the mechanism of man as it does. ""In the Treatise of man, Descartes did not describe man, but a kind of conceptual models of man, namely creatures, created by God, which consist of two ingredients, a body and a soul. ""These men will be composed, as we are, of a soul and a body. First I must describe the body on its own" then the soul, again on its own" and finally I must show how these two natures would have to be joined and united in order to constitute men who resemble us""."" (SEP). This highly influential work was the first to present a coherent description of bodily responses in neurophysiological terms that are still, to a wide extent, accepted today. In his attempt to solve the central question around which almost all philosophical thought had revolved since the time of Aristotle, what the relation between the soul and the body actually is, Descartes came to create a milestone work of physiology which changed the entire trajectory of modern physiological conceptions. ""Without Descartes, the seventeenth-century mechanization of physiological conceptions would have been inconceivable."" (DSB). He believed that the relationship between the soul and the body was mediated by the brain and the nervous system, and his seminal attempts to explain neural mechanisms drew a great deal on the engineering developments of his time (eg. the hydraulic automata that had been installed at the Versailles). He developed a hydro-mechanical theory of how the soul controlled the contraction of muscle through the intermediary of the pineal and the cerebral ventricles, and he produced an explanation of how it received, through the nerves from the periphery, signals that gave rise to sensation. Descartes' theories quickly spread throughout Europe, and the work in which he had developed them, his ""De Homine"" became extremely influential. This posthumously published work was actually written in the 1630's, but after the condemnation of Galilei in 1633, Descartes did not dare publish it"" ""although it thus had to await posthumous publication in the 1660's, his writing of the Traité de l'homme proved extremely important in the further maturation of Descartes's physiological conceptions."" (D.S.B. p.62). ""Some time after Descartes's death in 1650, his French manuscript, copies of which had circulated among his friends and correspondents, was edited and published. The first version was a Latin translation (De homine) by Florentius Schuyl in 1662, the second the now better known 'original' French version (Traité de l'homme) edited by Descartes's self-appointed literary executor Claude Clerselier in 1664. In the seventeenth century the 1662 Latin version was probably much more widely read than the French text. There were problems for the editors of both versions. Firstly, there were differences between the manuscripts: Clerselier in Paris claimed that his version was Descartes's own, that the others were 'corrupt' and that Schuyl had been 'misled' by them. However, a more important difficulty was raised because it was clear that the text was intended to be illustrated - Descartes refers to figures and to features within these labelled by letters. But no set of figures accompanied the manuscripts. Both editors have left quite detailed accounts in their long prefaces - little treatises in themselves. Here I consider only Schuyl, the editor of the Latin De homine. Schuyl (1619-69) was a professor of philosophy in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, the country in which Descartes was living during the writing of Le monde. Two of the author's friends had copies of the manuscript that they supplied to Schuyl, and with one of these were included two sketches of illustrations apparently in Descartes's own hand. These Schuyl included. One of them represents the medial and lateral rectus muscles in the orbit, which deflect the eye nasally and temporally. The other figures Schuyl had to have made and, since he mentions no one else, one supposes that he designed them himself."" (IML Donaldson, J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2009" 39:375-6).Wellcome II:453 Osler 931 Garrison and Morton 574. Waller only has a later edition.
, Brussel, De Lage Landen,- Godenne, s.d. Gebonden, met opdruk titel, 8vo, 96 pp.
FLAMMARION. 1989. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 314 pages - EX DONO en page de titre -. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle
Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle
Hatier. 1989. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 79 pages. Nombreuses annotations au crayon dans le texte (ouvrage de travail).. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
Profil Philosophie, 728. Intro. et Commentaire par Eric BRAUNS. Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
EDITION 10/18. 1963. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 244 pages. Couverture illustrée en couleur. Présence de feuilles volantes.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
N° 1. Edition originale. Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
Editions de Cluny Relié D'occasion bon état 01/01/1937 150 pages
Hatier. 1995. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 79 pages. Quelques annotations au crayon dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
Profil, Textes Philosophiques, 751. Texte intégral. Edition de Eric BRAUNS. Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
Garnier-Flammarion, Collection GF, N°109. 1987. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 252 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleur.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
Chronologie et préface par Geneviève Rodis-Lewis. Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES