Lot 1329 René Descartes. Discours de la méthode, pour …

Discours de la méthode, pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Plus la dioptrique et les météores, qui sont des essais de cette méthode. Revue, & corrigée en cette dernière édition. Mit zahlr. Textholzschnitten. Paris, Theodore Girard, dans la grand salle du palais . Avec privilege du Roy., 1668. 2 Bll., 413 S., 15 Bll. Moderner Hldr. mit Buntpapiereinlage.

Physik - Optik

Naturwissenschaften – Dritte erweiterte Ausgabe des wichtigen Werkes. - Carter/Muir 129. - Das wichtigste Werk von Descartes, in dem er sein System des "cogito ergo sum" vorstellt. Für die Methodik der Wissenschaften wurde es von großer Wichtigkeit ebenso wie für die Begründung der modernen Erkenntnistheorie. Das Werk enthält ferner bedeutende Beobachtungen auf dem Gebiet der Optik und der Meteorologie, u. a. Beobachtungen und Versuche über Gewitter, Winde, Schnee, Regenbogen etc. Vor allem die letzen Seiten teils etwas schwächer wasserandig. - Insgesamt noch gute Ausgabe des wichtigen Werkes.

Natural Sciences – Physics. - Optics. - With numerous text woodcuts. Modern half calf with marbled paper inlays. - Third expanded edition of this important work. Descartes' most signifacant work, in which he presents his system of "cogito ergo sum". It became of great importance for the methodology of science as well as for the foundation of modern epistemology. The work also contains important observations in the field of optics and meteorology, including observations and experiments on thunderstorms, winds, snow, rainbows, etc.. Particularly the last few pages somewhat waterstained. Overall still good edition of the important work.

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