René DESCARTES
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Plus la Dioptrique et les météores, qui sont les essais de cette méthode [avec] Traité de la mechanique [avec] Abrégé de la musique
Chez Charles Angot|à Paris 1668|17.50 x 23 cm|relié
Chez Charles Angot, à Paris 1668, 4to (17.5 x 23cm), 303 pp. (23 p.); 127 pp. (1 p.), bound.
Third edition of Discours de la méthode, dated 8 May 1668, expanded with Traité de la Méchanique first published here and the first French edition of Abrégé de la Musique. Another “third edition” of Discours de la Méthode by Théodore Girard and Nicolas Le Gras (with Michel Bobin) was printed a few days earlier (28 April) without the additional texts. For the first time, Descartes' name is present on the title-page of both editions.
First edition of Traité de la méchanique and first French e
Third edition of Discours de la méthode, dated 8 May 1668, expanded with Traité de la Méchanique first published here and the first French edition of Abrégé de la Musique. Another “third edition” of Discours de la Méthode by Théodore Girard and Nicolas Le Gras (with Michel Bobin) was printed a few days earlier (28 April) without the additional texts. For the first time, Descartes' name is present on the title-page of both editions.
First edition of Traité de la méchanique and first French e
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