Expositio Philosophiæ Newtonianæ, Ex Editione Parisina D. Lavirotte Anni M. DCC. XLIX

Colin Maclaurin

Verlag: Vienna: Joannis Thomas Trattner, 1761

Beschreibung

First Latin edition. [6], xxxii, [2], 493, [1], [2 errata] pp. with six folding plates. Hardcover, bound in full calf, gilt tooled spine in compartments, all edges red. Bookplate. Light occasional foxing/blemishes; leaf E3 with a corner clipped; a couple of repaired marginal tears. Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), mathematician and natural philosopher. "Some time after Newton died in 1727 John Conduitt asked MacLaurin to collaborate in the writing of his biography; the project lost momentum with Conduitt's death in 1737 but MacLaurin continued with his part in it and the work was published posthumously in 1748 as An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. MacLaurin discusses Newton's method of investigation and of 'philosophizing', as well as his discoveries, and begins with a long history of natural philosophy since the ancients, in which he again asserts the importance for religion of sound natural philosophy. Though a number of other general expositions of Newton's thought were published during the eighteenth century, MacLaurin's Account has long been recognized as the leading authoritative statement of mainstream Newtonianism." [ODNB] Latin translation by Gregorio Falck, (1727- 1775) Jesuit professor of Philosophy in Passau and Hebrew in Vienna. Wallis 113.2. De Backer/Sommervogel III, 532,1. Giese, Trattner 515. Pogendorf II,6. Babson 85ff. Gray 112f. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M22-Lib-S2-2

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Titel: Expositio Philosophiæ Newtonianæ, Ex ...

Verlag: Vienna: Joannis Thomas Trattner

Erscheinungsdatum: 1761

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition