Description: OEUVRES CHOISIES DE DESCARTES _____ NOUVELLE EDITION PARISGARNIER FRERES1876 DESCRIPTIONPotter & Sons Binding(ii) + xii + 438pp + (ii)Book measures 190mm x 125mm approximately.Printed Text in FrenchBeautifully bound by Potter & Sons in medium half crimson calf over gilt-edged marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands with lovely ‘arts & crafts’ gilt floral motifs to compartments with title, author in gilt. Marbled end-papers and paste-downs, top page edges in gilt, remainder uncut.Although undated, research seems to indicate a publication date of 1876.CONDITIONIn overall very good condition. The binding is holding very firm, a few minor marks and surface scratches with some light wear to hinges, board edges and spine head and foot with mild bumping to corners.Internally the pages are uniformly lightly age-toned with the occasional spot, more so to end-papers. Previous owner bookplate central to front paste-down.INTERESTINGRené Descartes (1596 to 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy and is largely seen as responsible for the increased attention given to epistemology in the 17th century.Descartes saw very clearly that all truths were linked with one another, so that finding a fundamental truth and proceeding with logic would open the way to all science. Descartes discovered this basic truth quite soon: in his famous "I think, therefore I am from ‘Discourse on the Method’ published in 1637. There is so much to say about Descartes that I won’t even begin.
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