The True Intellectual System of the Universe: the First Part; wherein, all the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and its Impossibility Demonstrated.
London: Richard Royston. 1678. Edition: First edition. , Binding: Recent half mottled morocco over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered brown morocco label in second compartment. All edges marbled., Notes: Thick folio (320 x 210 mm).
Ralph Cudworth FRS (1617 – 1688) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists who became 11th Regius Professor of Hebrew (1645–1688), 26th Master of Clare Hall (1645–1654), and 14th Master of Christ's College (1654–1688). A leading opponent of Hobbes's political and philosophical views, his magnum opus was his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678).
, Size: Thick folio , Illustration: Very good example, illustrated with a frontispiece showing theists (Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Socrates) and atheists (Anaximander, Strato, and Epicurus) in confrontation. Title printed in red and black. Inconsistencies in pagination; jumps (p.84 to 97,300 to 303; 346 to 407; 414 to 355) and mispaginations (p.123 as 117; 130 as 112; 155/156 numbering repeats, then continues; 305/306 numbering repeats, then continues; 463 as 462; 612 as 596; 613 as 513; 617 as 601; 725 as 728; 734 as 728; 735 as 728; 788 as 778; 793 as 771), catchwords follow. Pp. 177/178 and 421/422 with loss at corners, not affecting text. , Pages: (P) Frontispiece. Blank. Title. Blank. Dedication (2). Preface (16). Pp. 1-899. Contents (84). Blank (2)., Category: Book Science & Technology;. Light marginal browning/dampstain, occasionally affecting text. Clipping of blurb mounted to front pastedown: “Original edition of this philosophical classic, which was edited more than once in later ages. Described by Lowndes as ‘a complete storehouse of ancient literature, a work of the first merit.’”
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