The philosophicall touch-stone, or observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's Discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule. In which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindicated, the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved. And the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing the soules mortality, briefly slighted. / By Alexander Ross.

  • Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
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The philosophicall touch-stone, or observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's Discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule. In which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindicated, the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved. And the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing the soules mortality, briefly slighted. / By Alexander Ross. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for James Young, and are to be sold by Charles Green, at the signe of the gun in Ivie-lane, 1645.

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16 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (19 cm)

Notes

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Lawson 264 Note: Binding: contemp. sheep, re-backed. With early ownership inscriptions on t.p., one deleted ("Thomas [illeg.]"), the other John or Jonathan Moore. Final leaf partially cut away, with loss of single rule beneath "Finis". Replacement copy
Copy 2. In ink on recto of first leaf: "E. libris Th Tuckfeild." Some financial calculations written on page following p. 131. From the library of Edwin Clarke.

References note

ESTC, R200130
Wing, R1979
Davida Rubin, Sir Kenelm Digby, 1991, no. 221
ESTC R200130
Thomason, E.290[1]
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R1979

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