BERKELEY, GEORGE - Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water, and divers other subjects connected together and arising one from another. The 2d ed., improved and corrected by the author.
London, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744, Second Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo, 174, [2]; 88 Pp. Near Fine/No Jacket.¶ This, Berkeley's last and most radical philosophical work can also be seen as prescient of all the chemical wonder, and industrial utility which was not long afterward to flow from chemical experiments on "tar water". Nonetheless, this is Berkeley's most radical statement of his position that only an intelligent mind or human being can exist actively and independently (that matter does not exist independent of perception), to arrive at this belief, he muses on the practical medical properties of tar water. Goldsmiths' Library's copy has ms. note inserted after t.p. which reads, "not in G.2. An anticipation of the immense chemical importance of the tar derivatives". Keynes, G. George Berkeley, 68; T.E. Jessup, A bibliography of George Berkeley (2d ed.) no. 145d; Cole, Wm. A. Chemical lit.113; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 8128.2, Wellcome, II, p. 149; NLM/Blake p. 43. Orig. marbled boards, calf backstrip, raised bands, red Mro. Label, gilt. With a long inscription in pencil on Fr. Fr. EP from a "rebellious patient" to his doctor, dated 1934. Two pages are partly browned from long term acid paper loosely stuck in them OW a Fine copy..
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