[NEWTON, Isaac]. LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von; CLARKE, Sa - Lot 275

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[NEWTON, Isaac]. LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von; CLARKE, Sa - Lot 275
[NEWTON, Isaac]. LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von; CLARKE, Samuel. A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke in the years 1715 and 1716. Relating to the principles of natural philosophy and religion. With an appendix. To which are added, letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity ; from a gentleman of the University of Cambridge : with the doctor's answers to them. Also remarks upon a book entitled, A philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty. By Samuel Clarke, D. D. Rector of St. James's Westminster, London : James Knapton, 1717. In-8 of XIII, [3], 416; 46 pp. Full beige cloth, long spine, gilt title (modern binding). Paper browned but a good copy well bound. On the revolutionary ideas of I. Newton, correspondence of the greatest interest between the English philosopher and theologian Samuel Clarke and the mathematician and philosopher G. Leibniz (1646-1716). Clarke opposes Leibniz on the nature of God according to Newton. Ezio Vailati makes this scholarly correspondence the most famous epistolary exchange of the early eighteenth century (cf. Leibniz and Clarke, A Study of Their Correspondence, p.4). Babson, 229.
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