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Verlag: London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777
Anbieter: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, 8vo (210 x 125 mm), xxxiv, [2], 206, [2] pp., with half-title, errata leaf between the preliminaries and text, and a catalogue of Priestley's works at the end, blind-stamp on first 3 leaves, some occasional light browning of the text, cont. calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached. Crook, PM/360.
Verlag: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
ISBN 10: 1170439802ISBN 13: 9781170439807
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018
ISBN 10: 1379841518ISBN 13: 9781379841517
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.
Verlag: LondonPrinted for J. Johnson ., 1777
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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FIRST EDITION. 2 works bound in one volume. 8vo. (20.5 x 13 cm). pp.xxxix+[2, errata, explanation of frontispiece]*+356 (lacking the adverts); xxxii+206. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards sometime rebacked preserving original spine, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. *Lacking the frontispiece to Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. Old bookplate with pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding scuffed, top edge darkened, light toning and occasional light spotting. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, theologian, grammarian, polymath, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the independent discovery of oxygen in 1774 by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide. The present work is one Priestley's principal metaphysical works, written as an elucidation and defence of his monist materialism and ideas on the unity of body and soul. Deeply controversial in its time, Priestley's Disquisitions contains a refutation of Cartesian dualism as erroneous insofar mind and spirit are actually part of material being, presenting matter as capable of thought and perception and dismissing the existence of a nonphysical soul. Despite widespread charges of atheism, Priestley saw matter as the manifestation of spiritual force and determinism as an active acceptance of causality in the will of God (ODNB).