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Rene Descartes & Anthony Le Grand
Lot 49015: Descartes & Legrand - 5 Pages of Engravings
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Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
February 4, 2023
Franklin, TN, US
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Description
This fascinated engraving is from Rene Descartes and Anthony Le Grand's
An Entire Body of Philosophy According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes. The work was published in London by Samuel Roycroft in 1694.
The engravings were completed by John Kip & Michael van der Gucht after illustrations by G. Freman and others. The work tackled logic, meteors, natural theology, weather, physics, demonology, animals, ethics, natural history, the soul, and knowledge.
Le Grand, a Franciscan friar, "wrote on a number of philosophical topics… but became best known as the most prominent English Cartesian of his age… Le Grand was the first writer to present the doctrines of Descartes in scholastic format" (Pyle 2:508)
This is the first edition of an important Cartesian work. "Antoine Le Grand's most substantial work,
An Entire Body of Philosophy According to the Principles Of the Famous Renate des Cartes (1694), is a Cartesian tract from beginning to end. It is based on a Latin text that underwent four editions before being translated into English by Richard Blome, and it includes corrections, alterations and additions by Le Grand himself. This work, as the title reveals, consists of three books. The first book,
The Institution, is intended as a treatment of the general nature of things according to Descartes's principles; book two,
The History of Nature, illustrates, by means of a great variety of reported experiments and examples, the operation of these first principles in nature. In this book, Le Grand applied the general Cartesian principles to his study of particular bodies and their qualities, showing how such principles can explain all natural phenomena. His extensive discussion includes bodies as various as the loadstone, plants, and insects. And finally, in his third book,
A Dissertation of the Want of Sense and Knowledge in Brute Animals, he argued against the supposed link of life and sense from Plato onwards, and after offering a brief survey of various hypotheses on the nature of soul by Aristotle, Gassendi, Fabri, and Descartes, he adopted Descartes's view. In the Preface, Le Grand wrote that, ' ... this whole work contains nothing else, but his [Descartes's] opinions, or what may clearly and distinctly be deduced from them.'" (Easton, Patricia, "Antoine Le Grand", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2006 edition)
Provenance:The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Dimensions
~ 9" by 15"
Artist or Maker
Rene Descartes & Anthony Le Grand
Medium
Engraving
Date
1694
Condition Report
The work is in very good to excellent condition. There may be a few minor imperfections to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions.
Literature
An Entire Body of Philosophy According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes
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Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper
byTrillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
February 4, 2023, 10:00 AM CST
Franklin, TN, US
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