1710 1ed Tabula Toti Philosophy Physics Logic Metaphysics 28 Illustrations MAGIC

1710 1^ed Tabula Toti Philosophy Physics Logic Metaphysics 28 Illustrations MAGIC

‘Tabula Toti Philosophiae’ is a highly rare and rather curious work – a collection of 28 full-page engravings published at beginning of the 18^th-century. This series of illustrations is divided into different parts, each focusing on some aspect of science or philosophy.

• 1-4: Allegories of philosophy

o   Ethics, metaphysics, physics

• 5-11: Logic
• 12-28: Physics and natural science

o   Science experiments and instruments, astronomy and Magdeburg hemispheres, Huygeniana machina, magic lantern and optics, human anatomy, ballistics and gunpowder, Archimedes’ Screw, clocks,

These incredible engravings illustrate the works and studies of notable scientists and philosophers such as Descartes, Gassendi, Archimedes, as well as Copernicus’s astronomical systems.

Published in 1710, this work is complete in all aspects and bound in a beautiful, pristine leather binding! The first and only known edition of this work!

Item number: #7038

Price: $950

CARS, Jean François

Tabula toti philosophiae praefigenda.

A Paris : Chez I.F. Cars, rue S. Jacques au N[om] de Jesus, 1710.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   28 full-page engraved plates

• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~11.25in X 8.25in (29cm x 21cm)
• Extremely rare with no other example for sale worldwide

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