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Amsterdam:: Editions Rodopi,. Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. B006XQU4Q0 . Number 6 in the Rodopi Philosphical Facsimiles series. Text is in Latin. A facsimile reprint of the 1647 edition. Near fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket. .

Den Haag: Adrian Ulacq, 1656/1659. hardcover. Sehr gut. Mit jeweils einem gestochenen Porträt. Beide Titel in Rot und Schwarz. 8vo. (ca. 19 x 15 cm). Pergamentband der Zeit mit 5 durchgezogenen Pergamentstreifen und handgeschr. Rückentitel, 8 Bll., 167 (9) S., 24 Bll., 495 S. Jeweils 2. Auflage. Die ersten Ausgaben erschienen 1647 bzw. 1649. I. Volpi 543. DSB V, 289 (jew. EA 1647). II. Volpi 546. Ziegenfuss I, 377. (falsch für 2. Aufl. von I.: 1684). - Gassendi (1592 - 1655) war Philosoph, Mathematiker und Astronom, lehrte als Professor in Aix-en-Provence und Paris. - "G. ist Gegner sowohl des Aristoteles als auch des Cartesius und sucht ihnen gegenüber ein auf der epikureischen Atomistik aufbauendes System zu entwickeln, wodurch er einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiter der neuen physikalisch-mechanistischen Weltanschauung wurde" (Ziegenfuss I, 375). "His true intellectual master was Galileo. ... His choice of Epicurean atomism as a framework for the exposition of his… Read More

Woodcut printer's device on title & one engraved plate with a port. of Epicurus. 4 leaves, 5-236, [18] pp. 4to, cont. French sheep (head & foot of spine neatly repaired, several signatures lightly browned), single gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Lyons: G. Barbier, 1647. First edition of an important book; this life of Epicurus, which emphasized his philosophy of physics, was the foundation of Gassendi's Epicurean atomism. His atomic theory was applied to chemistry by Boyle and adopted by Newton in his new mechanical philosophy. "Before Galileo and Descartes had succeeded in combining mathematics with mechanics, the chief refuge of hard-headed opponents of scholastic verbalism and Renaissance Platonism was the tradition of Greek atomism...Its chief representative during the period of Cartesian domination was Gassendi, who stands both as the climax of Epicurean atomism of the Renaissance in its accommodation to a mathematical… Read More