‎ROHAULT (J.)‎
‎Traité de physique -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 2 TOMES reliés en un volume (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Savreux, 1671, 2 tomes reliés en un volume in 4, pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, (reliure de l'époque), (mouillures pâles sans gravité dns les marges extérieures de quelques feuillets au tome 1, petite salissure d'origine sans gravité à la page 73 du tome 1, quelques rousseurs), T.1 : (16), 378pp., 2 planches, T.2 : 382pp., 1 planche, (4), figures dans le texte‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGNALE ---- "Rohault (1620/1675) was the leading advocate and teacher of Descartes's natural philosophy among the first generation of french cartesians... Rohault's masterwork, the Traité de physique, became the era's leading textbook on natural philosophy; Intended as an elementary synthesis of Cartesian science, it was largely based on the material and pedagogical approach that Rohault had developed in his conférences. As Paul Mouy observed, Rohault did not wish to appear as a mere cartesian partisan in the Traité, but as a sympathetic arbiter between the systems of Aristotle and Descartes... In the Traité, Rohault accepted Descartes's principles of natural philosophy... The strenth of the Traité and its contemporary appeal lay in Rohault's ability to weave new experimental findings, as well as his knowledge of craft and chemical processes, within a verbal web of cartesian mechanistic discourse...". (DSB XI pp. 506/509)**4542/i‎