Price: £1,200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1677
Stock Number: 53712
(Your basket is currently empty)Concerning the Principles of Natural Bodies: wherein the Principles of the Old and New Philosophy are stated, and the new demonstrated, more agreeable to Reason, from Mechanical Experiments and its usefulness to the benefit of Man-kind.
Description: FIRST EDITION, some damp-staining around the edges, a single worm hole throughout, without causing any serious loss, pp. [xvi], 173, [1], 12mo, recased in later sheep, red edges, a bit scuffed, various ownership inscriptions, Jn Ash (c.1700) at the head of the Dedication, David Dott, 1759, and J.G., 1785, on the preserved fly-leaf of the original binding, and Joseph Hay, 1822, on the title-page, soundPublication Details: Printed by T. Hodgkin, for Dorman Newman, 1677
Notes: William Simpson was a medical doctor from York, whose dates in ESTC are given as 'active 1665-1677', this being the span of his printed works, all of which relate to his spat with Robert Wittie over Scarsborough Spaw. The present work deals more with Wittie's stubborn support of Aristotelianism. The two characters in the dialogues are Hydrophilus (intended for Wittie, as made clear in the Preface) and Pyrophilus (Simpson himself, or the type of the new philosopher as exemplified by Bacon, Harvey and Boyle - all mentioned in the text). The dispute with Wittie was characterised by some choice te...more
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