Johann Heinrich Samuel FORMEY
Mélanges philosophiques
Elie Luzac, fils|à Leyde [Leiden] 1754|10 x 16.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First collected edition. One portrait frontispiece and a repeated title vignette.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black sheep volume labels. Worn headcaps. Joints cracked at head for 1cm. Corners very bumped. Preliminary leaves browned. Good copy.
German man of letters and philosopher, director of the philosophy class at the Berlin Academy, among other positions he held, Formey (1711-1797) left numerous philosophical writings, some of which are gathered in this collection. He had a great reputation and his works were always well received, as evidenced by his extensive correspondence with all the learned men of Europe. Notable in this collected edition are: Réflexions sur la liberté; Essai sur le sommeil; Essai sur les songes; Dissertation sur le meurtre volontaire de soi-même; Recherches sur les éléments de la matière; Considérations sur les éléments des corps; Système du vrai bonheur; La logique des vraisemblances; Deux lettres sur l'éternité des peines, etc. Many of these memoirs appeared in the Mémoires de l'Académie de Berlin. In France, he was very close to Maupertuis and an enemy of Voltaire and generally of freethinkers, although he collaborated on the Encyclopédie.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black sheep volume labels. Worn headcaps. Joints cracked at head for 1cm. Corners very bumped. Preliminary leaves browned. Good copy.
German man of letters and philosopher, director of the philosophy class at the Berlin Academy, among other positions he held, Formey (1711-1797) left numerous philosophical writings, some of which are gathered in this collection. He had a great reputation and his works were always well received, as evidenced by his extensive correspondence with all the learned men of Europe. Notable in this collected edition are: Réflexions sur la liberté; Essai sur le sommeil; Essai sur les songes; Dissertation sur le meurtre volontaire de soi-même; Recherches sur les éléments de la matière; Considérations sur les éléments des corps; Système du vrai bonheur; La logique des vraisemblances; Deux lettres sur l'éternité des peines, etc. Many of these memoirs appeared in the Mémoires de l'Académie de Berlin. In France, he was very close to Maupertuis and an enemy of Voltaire and generally of freethinkers, although he collaborated on the Encyclopédie.
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