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First edition in German and the only separate edition, a translation of
‘RéXexions sur l’éspace et le tems’, Mémoires de l’académie des sciences
de Berlin 4 (1750) 324–333. Euler Archive 149A.
‘Euler outlays his views on the relation between Metaphysics and Mechanics.
The truths of mechanics are “so indubitably constant” that they must be
founded in the natures of bodies. Metaphysics is the study of the nature of
bodies, therefore the laws of Mechanics constrain Metaphysical theories. In
fact, any Metaphysical idea or conclusion corresponding to a Mechanical one
must agree in all its implications with Mechanics. This applies in particular
to space and time. Real, absolute, space and time are assumed by the laws of
Mechanics. Therefore, Metaphysical arguments for the unreality of space and
time must be unfounded and “hide some parlogism”.’ (The Euler Archive:
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/)
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FABRICI, Girolamo, Fabricius of Aquapendente (1533–c. 1619)
De brutorum loquela.
Padua: ex typographia Laurentii Pasquati, 1603.
Folio, p4 (–p4) A–D2 , 17 leaves, pp. [6] 27 [1] (last page blank). Index
on p3. Woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut initials.
388 x 250mm. Lower margins dampstained and paper weakened.
Binding: Recent half calf.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd (cost code on rear
pastedown).
First edition, originally issued with De formato foeto and other works by
Fabricius without a general titlepage. There was a Frankfurt eiditon of
the collection, Anatomices et chirurgiae... tractatus quatuor (1625) and
the original sheets were re­issued, but without the prelims, in Opera
physica anatomica (Padua, Meglietti, 1625). See Wellcome 2119 and
Krivatsy 3804.
A treatise on the production of sounds by animals. It was one of the treatises
intended to form part of Fabrici’s monumental Totius animalis fabricae
theatrum which was never completed.
This work was issued with De formato foetu (1604), De venarum osteolis
(1603) and De locutione et eius instrumentis liber (1603). De formato foetu has a
Wne engraved titlepage, but there is no general titlepage. It is unclear if De
brutorum loquela was issued independently. The present copy was probably
extracted from a volume with all four treatises.
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FAuST, Johann Michael (1663–1707)
Compendium alchymist. novum, sive Pandora explicata & figuris
illustrata, das ist die Edelste Gabe Gottes oder ein güldener Schatz.
Frankfurt and Leipzig: Verlegts Johann Zieger, 1706.