Decameron Physiologicum: or, Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy.

HOBBES, Thomas.

Published by London: printed by J. C[ottrell]. for W. Crook, 1678

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First edition, Hobbes's final work, published when he was over 90, a contribution to the Hobbes-Wallis controversy, a bitter dispute in the English scientific scene from the 1650s into the 1670s. Decameron Physiologicum offered a "new set of dialogues on physical questions, in the fashion of the earlier ones, but now with a stroke added at Wallis's doctrine of gravitation in the De Motu. And a demonstration of the equality of a straight line to the arc of a circle was, of course, thrown in at the end, to show him true as ever to the desperate purpose that had maintained the long quarter of a century of strife" (MacDonald & Hargreaves). ESTC R2630; Macdonald & Hargreaves 684. Octavo (174 x 108 mm). With folding plate. Twentieth-century brown quarter morocco by John P. Gray & Son of Cambridge, rebacked, marbled sides. Light peripheral staining, a few leaves with minor peripheral nicks or tiny chips. A good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decameron Physiologicum: or, Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy.
• Publisher: London: printed by J. C[ottrell]. for W. Crook, 1678
• Edition: 1st Edition