The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley's Miscellaneous Tracts which also include "De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum" in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton's absolute Space, Time and Motion. ("With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the "precursor of Mach and Einstein" - Karl Popper)]

[Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine / [Berkeley, George]

Published by London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747

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First English Edition. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript - annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in "A Word to the Wise", "Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water", "The Querist". From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork. Bound with: "[Berkeley, George] Bishop of Coyne - "A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne. London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S.Draper, 1752. VI, 267, [1] pages. Title-page witme minor paper-restoration. This wonderful collection by the eminent ANglo-Irish Philosopher includes the following Pamphlets / Tracts, as called for: 1. Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water 2. An Essay towards preventing the Ruin of Great-Britain 3. A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority. Occasioned by the enormous Licence and Irreligion of the Times. 4. A Word to the Wise - Or, an Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland This section "A Word to the Wise" includes several interesting annotations: a. an underlining of the sentence: "Seeing you are obnoxious of the Law" with a comment "Oh! infamous" b. annotation: "the catholic clergy cannot be accused even by there greatest enemies of having been influenced by interested motives, therefore this hint of his lordship was not of much avail" 5. A Letter to the Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Cloyne 6. Maxims concerning Patriotism 7. The Querist - Containing several Queries, proposed to the Consideration of the Public 8. Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 9. A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity, by a College to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called, The Isles of Bermuda 10. A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St.Mary-le-Bow, in 1731 11. De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum ______________________________________________________________________________.

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• Title: The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley's Miscellaneous Tracts which also include "De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum" in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton's absolute Space, Time and Motion. ("With this essay, Berkeley ...
• Publisher: London, Printed for R.Dodsley
• Publication Date: 1747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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