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Amstelodami, P. & J. Blaeu, postant apud Janssonio - Waesbergios, Boom & Goethale, 1701.
4th, 6 parts in one volume, pp. (6) + (2)-74-(2); 51; 22; 90; 26; 17-(1). Printer's mark on the title page. United with its own title page: DES-CARTES Renati. Musicae compendium. Amstelodami, ex Typographia Blaviana, 1683. 4th, pp. 49 + a blank paper with examples and musical figures n.t. Printer's mark on the title page. Missing restored frontispiece, light browning, rare foxing. Contemporary binding in full parchment, tit. calligraphic on the spine.
4th, 6 parts in one volume, pp. (6) + (2)-74-(2); 51; 22; 90; 26; 17-(1). Printer's mark on the title page. United with its own title page: DES-CARTES Renati. Musicae compendium. Amstelodami, ex Typographia Blaviana, 1683. 4th, pp. 49 + a blank paper with examples and musical figures n.t. Printer's mark on the title page. Missing restored frontispiece, light browning, rare foxing. Contemporary binding in full parchment, tit. calligraphic on the spine.
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Very rare original edition for the "Opuscula" and second edition for the Musicae compendium. In 1704 the same publisher published a second edition without the compendium on the music. Extremely rare. Brunet II, 611-612: «Dans ce recueil posthume sont comprises les traductions de trois ouvrages qui n'avaient encore paru qu'en français». The volume "Opuscula..." includes the following works by Descartes: 1) Mundus, sive Dissertatio de Lumine, ut & de aliis Sensuum Objectis primariis. 2) Tractatus de Mechanica cum Elucidationibus N. Poissonis. 3) N. Poissonis Elucidationes Physica in Cartesii Musicam. 4) Regula ad Directionem Ingenii, ut & Inquisitio Veritatis for Lumen Naturale. 5) First Cogitationes about Generationem Animaliun, & nothing about Superibus. 6) Excerpta ex MSS. R. Des-Cartes. The lower margin of the frontispiece has been restored. The most important text reported here is the "Regulae", Descartes' first work on the scientific method, composed between 1619 and 1628. The Regulae reveals that Descartes had already dealt with the "method" as the key to scientific progress. A method of fundamentally mathematical inspiration, although it is intended to be the method of rational investigation in every subject studied. This concern with "method" appears in the Regulae in a form that is both more detailed and less metaphysically engaged than the form that appears in his later works.
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