‎WOLF (Christian)‎
‎Cosmologia generalis methodo scientifica pertractata qua ad solidam, in primis dei atque naturae cognitionem via sternitur‎

‎Francfort & Leipzig, Rengeriana, 1731, un volume in 4 relié en demi-parchemin à coins, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (8), 448pp., (5), 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE‎

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‎EDITION ORIGINALE ---- RARE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- ONE OF WOLF'S MOST IMPORTANT DETERMINIST WORKS, MANY OF THE IDEAS OF WHICH WERE LATER ADOPTED BY KANT" ---- "After three years at Jean, Wolff received the master's degree from Leipzig in 1702, becoming first a lecturer in mathematics and then, in 1706, professor of mathematics and natural science at the University of Halle. He was recommended for the latter post by Leibniz, with whom he had established a correspondence and whose philosophical ideas, although somewhat modified and vulgarized, subsequently became the cornestone of his own philosophical writings... To know that something exists requires reocurse to experience, both direct and inferential, through the giving of reasons ; the reference to reason again permits a convenient slide from ratio cognoscendi to ratio essendi, and from logical to real possibility ; these doctrines quite naturally lead to Wolf's deterministic formulations of his cosmological principles, which emphasize the rational connections between things, given as sequences or coexistences ; these formal themes were later directly echoed in Kant's writings. The visible world is a machine, operating in accordance with the laws of motion. Almost one-third of the Cosmologia generalis treats these laws...". (DSB XIV pp. 482/784) ---- Cosmologiae generalis - De notione mundi feu universi - De notione corporum, ex quibus mundus componitur - De natura universa & perfectione mundi‎