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Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1858
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Disbound. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. A Poor but complete copy, lacking the covers, but with the text block binding still holding. Margin wear at the foredge, endpapers soiled. Large dampstain at the upper gutter (no paper adhesion). A reading/reference copy ONLY of this 1858 printing. Book.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1860
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Contents complete and secure in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Cloth shipped at spine ends and split for 1" top and bottom of front edge of spine; damp rippling to rear board and tide marks at bottome outer corner. Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (Auguste Comte, 1798-1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism, which enjoyed broad popularity during the later 19th century. It sank into an almost complete oblivion during the twentieth century, when it was eclipsed by neopositivism. However, Comte s decision to develop successively a philosophy of mathematics, a philosophy of physics, a philosophy of chemistry and a philosophy of biology, makes him the first philosopher of science in the modern sense, and his constant attention to the social dimension of science resonates in many respects with current points of view. This book on the philosophy of mathematics is the first of its kind. Provenance: Former owner's name stamp on ffep - "H. N. Chute" - Horatio Nelson Chute, 1847-1928, author of Elementary Practice of Physics; The Elements of Physics; First Principles of Physics; Practical Physics; etc.