RENATI DESCARTES
PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE
ULTIMA EDITIO CUM OPTIMA COLLATA DILIGENTER RECOGNITA & MENDIS EXPURGATA
AMSTELODAMI
EX TYPOGRAPHIA BLAVIANA MDCLXXXV
Very fine illustrated edition of 1685 of this collection of works by the french phylosopher René Descartes (1596-1650).
The work was written with the aim to substitute to the Aristotelic model used in british and french universities. It exposes the revolutionary concept according to whom "in absence of external forces the movement of a item will be uniform and in right line, a principle that the same Newton used and inserted in his Principia and that is generally connected in his "Primo pincipio della dinamica".
Inside the following works with its own title page: Principiorum philosohpiae; Specimina philosophiae seu dissertatio de methodo dioptrice et meteora; Passiones animae; Meditationes de prima philosophia; appendix continens objectiones in meditationes de prima philosophia; Epistola Renati Descartes ad celeberrimum virum D. Gisbertum Voetium.
In this first edition Blaeu published page per page the previous collective editions Elzeviriane of 1664, 1672 and 1677.
Some engravings in the text of scientiphical examples and instruments.
Portrait of Descartes in the frontspice engraved by Franciscus van Schooten.
Marbled external edges.
In excellent conditions.
Modern leather cover in very good conditions lightly worn in the extremities. Binding in good conditions. Pages in good conditions with occasional foxing. In 8. cm. 21,5x17,5. Pp. (3)+(39)+222+(2)+(16)+248+(24)+92+(4)+(16)+191+(1)+164+88+(1). Peso Kg. 1,600