Essai Philosophique concernant L'Entendement Humain, ou l'on montre quelle est L'etendu de nos Connoissances certaines, et la Maniere dont nous y parvenons. Traduit.de L'Anglois par M.Coste. Seconde Edition revue, corrigée, & augmentée de quelque Additions importantes de l'Auteur qui n'ont paru qu'apres sa mort, et de quelques Remarques du Traducteur.

LOCKE, JOHN.

Published by Pierre Mortier., Amsterdam., 1727

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4to. Contemporary full vellum, lettered in ink to spine, engraved portrait and a large engraved vignette. (8),XLVI,595 pp. + Table des Matieres. The vellum a little mottled and rubbed, some pages some-what browned. From the library of Stephanos Carathèodory with his engraved bookplate and his gilt monogram on the spine. Stephanos Carathéodory, was an Ottoman Greek who had studied law in Berlin and then served as secretary in the Ottoman embassies in Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. Stephanos had married Despina Petrocochino, who came from a Greek family of businessmen who had settled in Marseille. At the time of his son Constantin's birth, the family were in Berlin since Stephanos had been appointed there two years earlier as First Secretary to the Ottoman Legation. The Carathéodory family, originally from Bosnochori or Vyssa, was well established and respected in Constantinople, and its members held many important government positions. Stephanos Carathèodory was the father of Constantin Carathéodory (or Constantine Karatheodori) (Greek: ???sta?t???? ?a?a?e?d???) (13 September 1873 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence. In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. Known correspondence of Carathéodory-Einstein can be seen as facsimile in Einstein Archives Online (11 items). Three letters concern mathematics and these are printed in vol.8 of Einstein's Collected Works (Princeton Univ. Press 1987). Seller Inventory # 016217

Bibliographic Details

Title: Essai Philosophique concernant L'Entendement...

Publisher: Pierre Mortier., Amsterdam.

Publication Date: 1727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Second edition