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Title

Facsimile of LJS 171, Physica ... etc.

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

7-13-2015

Files

Comments

Commentaries on Parts 2-4 (De principiis rerum materialium, De mundo adspectabili, De terra) of the Principia philosophiae of René Descartes, as well as a work by Descartes on meteors, all under the heading Physica, followed by medical treatises on Peruvian bark (used as a cure for fevers) and fevers more generally, and additional Cartesian writings considering motion, location, and infinity.

Keywords

Cinchona bark--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800, Fever--Early works to 1800, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Philosophy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Treatises, Manuscripts Latin--17th century, Manuscripts Latin--18th century, Manuscripts European

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803812

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs171.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 171, Physica ... etc." (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 224.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/224