A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things: wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them? By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Published by London printed by H.C. for John Taylor, 1688
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[TITLE CONTINUES].To which are subjoyn'd, by way of appendix some uncommon observations about vitiated sight. By the same author.Some uncommon observations about vitiated sightSmall 8vo, pp [16], 96, 81-112, 129-274, [6, errata and catalogue of books], bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, lacking label, wear to head of spine, minor marking to upper board and neat restoration to upper corner and one leaf [no loss], else in good clean and tight state throughout, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, with the author's name in full on the title page. 'The most detailed treatment of final causality to appear in the seventeenth century.' James Lennox hasargued ' Boyle's primary aim in this work was to provide a defence of teleological inference in experimental science.'.
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- Title
- A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things: wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them? By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
- Author
- BOYLE, ROBERT.
- Publisher
- London printed by H.C. for John Taylor
- Publication year
- 1688
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- Hardcover
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- 1st Edition
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