‎AMPERE (J.M.)‎
‎Essai sur la philosophie des sciences ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines -- 2 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎P., Mallet-Bachelier, 1856/1843, 2 volumes in 8 reliés demi-chagrin (reliure de l'époque), (rousseurs), T.1 : 62pp., 272pp., T.2 : 10pp., 96pp., 180pp., 1 grande planche dépliante comprenant : "Optimo et carissimo filio carmen pnemonicum" et "classification des connaissances humaines ou tableaux synoptiques des sciences et des arts" (ces deux tableaux se trouvant réunis dans cet exemplaire en une seule planche) ‎

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‎---- Seconde édition AUGMENTEE D'UN VOLUME ---- Bien complet des deux tableaux réunis dans cet exemplaire en une grande planche dépliante---- "En 1834, deux ans avant sa mort, AMPERE fait paraître un OUVRAGE GIGANTESQUE intitulé Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines". (En Français dans le texte N° 240 1st ed.) ---- "AMPERE's philosophical analysis also provided him with the key for his classification of the sciences, which he considered the capstone of his career. Like Kant, he was concerned with relating precisely what man could know with the sciences that dealt with each part of man's ability to know. The chart appended to his Essai sur la philosophie des sciences (1834) seems, at first glance, to be a fantastic and uncorrelated list of possible objects of investigation... In Ampère's classification this is divided into two second-order sciences - elementary general physics and mathematical physics. Each of these, in turn, has two divisions. Elementary general physics consists of experimental physics and chemistry ; mathematical physics is divided into stereonomy and atomology. Experimental physics deals with phenomena. Chemistry deals with the noumenal causes of the vacts discovered by experimental physics... This classification reveals Ampere's far-ranging mind and permits us to understand his occasional excursions into botany, taxonomy and even animal anatomy and physiology... In his Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, he maintained that the fit was too good to be coincidence ; the classification must reflect truth. Once again he had found certainty where his predecessors had not... ". (DSB I p. 142)**80/ARB3 + 7980.ARB3 + 7648.CART 8‎