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LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich (1728--1777)
Anlage zur Architectonic, oder Theorie des Einfachen und des Ersten in der philosophischen und mathematischen Erkenntniss, durch J. H. Lambert. ...
Riga:, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch,, 1771
2 vols ; 20.2 cm. (8º)
I: XXX, [2], 376 p.
II: [4], 560 p.
Despite the title, which may have misled Soane into acquiring it, this work is not about architecture but metaphysics. The author, a mathematician best known for his work on pi, here attempts to transform philosophy into a deductive science, modelled on Euclid's approach to geometry. The title of Bd. 2 is 'Anlage zur Architectonic, oder Theorie des Ersten und des Einfachen ...'
Copy Notes Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 2s. 2d., 3 November 1829. (Archive 7/10/19).
Binding C19th half calf, gilt roll-tool borders, gilt double-rule spine, marbled-paper boards, red morocco spine-label. The two volumes bound as one.
Reference Number 2573
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin
Anlage zur Architectonic, oder Theorie des Einfachen und des Ersten in der philosophischen und mathematischen Erkenntniss, durch J. H. Lambert. ...
Riga:, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch,, 1771
2 vols ; 20.2 cm. (8º)
I: XXX, [2], 376 p.
II: [4], 560 p.
Despite the title, which may have misled Soane into acquiring it, this work is not about architecture but metaphysics. The author, a mathematician best known for his work on pi, here attempts to transform philosophy into a deductive science, modelled on Euclid's approach to geometry. The title of Bd. 2 is 'Anlage zur Architectonic, oder Theorie des Ersten und des Einfachen ...'
Copy Notes Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 2s. 2d., 3 November 1829. (Archive 7/10/19).
Binding C19th half calf, gilt roll-tool borders, gilt double-rule spine, marbled-paper boards, red morocco spine-label. The two volumes bound as one.
Reference Number 2573
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin