Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $1,500.00
Shipping: $15.00
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $1,515.00
4 - 6 days
7 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $1,515.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $1,500.00
Shipping: $15.00
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $1,515.00

You are about to purchase:

No image available

Passiones animae ... nunc autem in exterorum gratiam Latina civitate donate ab H.D.M. I.V.L. [Henricus des Marets Iuris Utriusque Licentiatus] by DESCARTES, Rene

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $15.00
Details
$1,500.00
( US$)
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Passiones animae ... nunc autem in exterorum gratiam Latina civitate donate ab H.D.M. I.V.L. [Henricus des Marets Iuris Utriusque Licentiatus]
Author
DESCARTES, Rene
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1650. FIRST LATIN EDITION. First Latin edition, printed in French the year before. This, the last book authored by Descartes and written for Queen Christina of Sweden, discusses psychology, ethics and the relationship between mind and body. “Descartes believed the soul to be a definite entity, giving rise to thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. He was one of the first to regard the brain as an an organ integrating the functions of mind and body” (G&M). Descartes made an essential distinction between the soul as the divinely-endowed seat of consciousness, will and rational thought, and the body as a machine or automaton subject to the laws of physics, and only indirectly controlled by the soul through the nerves. Using this dualistic model, he was able to make the important distinction between voluntary and involuntary actions. “Cartesian physiology and philosophy had a powerful influence on the thinking of such men as Robert Hooke, Giovanni Borelli, Jan Swammerdam, and Thomas Willis. Descartes’ theories helped to explain in understandable mechanistic terms the more puzzling problems of human physiology during a time when scientific research was expanding rapidly” (Heirs). DSB IV, pp. 55 - 65; Garrison & Morton, 4965 (Fr. ed.); Heirs of Hippocrates, 467; Norman, 625 (Fr. ed.); Wellcome II, p. 453.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.