Lipsiae / Amstelodami: Apud J. Thomam Fritsch. / Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1695. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2331234

Ink name and date on front flyleaf, minor pencil notes on endpapers.

[xxviii], 296, [iv], 64, 241, [6] pp. Original vellum. Latin text. Two 1695 works by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus bound together with a 1688 work by Louis de la Forge and Johann Flender. Tschirnhaus was most well known as a mathematician, though he corresponded with both Leibniz and Spinoza about philosophical matters (he was among the first to receive a copy of the latter's Ethics). The works included here illustrate his interest in deduction via empiricism, and other concepts related to the Enlightenment. Louis de la Forge was a personal friend of the renowned philosopher Rene Descartes, and his contribution here references Cartesian principles as a means of explaining his doctrine of occasionalism (a theory of causation ascribing causality of events to God rather than to created substances [of which humanity would be one]). Includes: Medicine Mentis Sive Artis Inveniendi Praecepta Generalia. Editio Nova, Auctior & Correctior, cum Praefatione Autoris.; Medicina Corporis, Seu Cogitationes Admodum Probabiles de Conservanda Sanitate.; Medicinae apud Salmurienses Doctoris, Tractatus de Mente Humana, Ejus Facultatibus & Functionibus, Nec Non De Ejusdem Unione Cum Corpore, Secunudm Prinicipia Renati Descartes. Emendatus & Auctus Praeter Numeratam Paragraphorum Distinctionem Summariis Marginalibus, Atque Rerum Primariarumque Questionum Philosophicarum Indicibus.

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