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Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1644. First edition, quarto, collated, complete, with blanks, illustrated with woodcuts throughout, contents good, bound in contemporary parchment with yapp edges. Descartes sketches out the core principle of the first fundamental law of motion in his Principia , later borrowed by Newton.


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