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JOHNSON, THOMAS. HEEREBOORD, ADRIANUS Quaestiones Philosophicae in Justi Systematis Ordinem Dispositae...Johnson, Thomas [1702 or 3-1737]. [Heereboord, Adrianus (1614-1661)]. Quaestiones Philosophicae in Justi Systematis Ordinem Dispositae; Auctoribus Adductis, Et Singulis in Proprias Hypothesis Dispertitis. Prioibus Auctior, & ad Usus Philosophicos Accomodatior Ad Calcem Subjicitur Appendix de Legibus Disputandi. Cambridge: Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn, 1741. [ii], 246 [ii] pp. Includes one-page publishers advertisement. Octavo (5" x 8"). Later three-quarter morocco over textured cloth, raised bands and gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, hinges cracked but secure, some dampstaining to foot of boards and text block. Early owner signature and annotation to title page. Browning to a few leaves, internally clean. Ex-institution library. Gilt insignia (of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple) to front board, bookplate to front pastedown, stamps to title page and a few leaves. A solid copy. $250. * Third edition. Intended for university students, this is a collection of questions about the principles of physics, natural history, chemistry, meteorology, mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, logic, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. Each question is accompanied by a bibliography of passages that the student should study. Authors in these lists include Leibniz, Descartes and Newton. The appendix is a set of rules on legal disputation derived from Heereboord's Hermeneia Logica, a treatise on logic. First published in 1651, it went through several editions into the eighteenth century. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 13:652.
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