First Edition. 8vo. 172 leaves.
Quérard IV, page 594.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, vii, 869.
Mottled calf, marbled end papers, pink silk bookmark. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T (the former missed in printing
and supplied by Jefferson ink); some leaves foxed and stained; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
5-7.
Pierre Lassus, 1741-1807, French surgeon.
[1002]
?J.9
L’homme et le monde de Descartes. par de la Forge.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 43. no. 9, as above.
DESCARTES, R
ené.
L’Homme de René Descartes, et la Formation du Foetus, avec les Remarques de Lovis de La Forge. A quoy l’on a ajouté le Monde ov Traité de la Lvmiere du mesme Autheur.
Seconde Edition, reveuë & corrigée.
A
Paris: chez
Charles Angot,
1677.
QP29 .D44
4to. 292 leaves. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, printer’s woodcut device on the title-page.
This edition not in Quérard.
Bibliothèque Nationale,
Descartes Exposition, no. 622.
This copy was probably from Jefferson’s library; it has been rebound by the Library of Congress and certain identification
lost.
The book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
1-16.
In his
Notes on Virginia
, Jefferson refers to Descartes’ theory of vortices as explained in
Le Monde
:
Galileo was obliged to abjure his error [i.e. that the earth was a sphere].
This error however at length prevailed the earth became a globe and Descartes declared it was whirled around its axis by a
vortex. The government in which he lived was wise enough to see that this was no question of civil jurisdiction or we should
all have been involved by authority in vortices . . .
R
ené Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher.
L’Homme, first published in 1664, was the first European text book on physiology. In
Le Monde, Descartes attempts to give an account of the genesis of the physical world.
Louis de La Forge, French protestant theologian and author of the seventeenth century.
[1003]
J.10
Anatomy of the human body by John & James Bell.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 43. no. 5, as above.
BELL,
John,
and BELL,
Sir Charles.
The Anatomy of the Human Body. Vol. I. [-IV.] . . .
London:
A. Strahan for
T. N. Longman and
O. Rees, and
T. Cadell Jun. and
W. Davies,
1802-4.
QM23 .B4
