LOT 78 Two Treatises: in the one of which, the Nature of Bodies in the other, the Nature of Mans Soule is looked into.... Paris: Gilles Blaizot, 1644. DIGBY, KENELM. 1603-1665.
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DIGBY, KENELM. 1603-1665.
Two Treatises: in the one of which, the Nature of Bodies in the other, the Nature of Mans Soule is looked into.... Paris: Gilles Blaizot, 1644. Folio (363 x 238 mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Covers worn, minor dampstaining, browning.FIRST EDITION of Digby's most important work on natural history, touching on a number of fields of science. He defends Harvey's theory of circulation, discusses theories of atomism or corpuscular theory, gives a description of the nervous system that predates that of Descartes, provides ground-breaking insights on embryology, and gives the first printed account of sign language. It "contains the first fully developed atomistic system of the seventeenth century ... [and] also contains the first important defense in English of Harvey's theory of the circulation" (Norman 639). Wing D-1448.
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