DIGBY, Kenelm. Two Treatises in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies, in the other, The Nature of Mans Soule, is looked into: in way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules , London: For John Williams 1645. 2 parts in one volume, 4°, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (some waterstaining, occasional light browning); Wellcome I, p. 408; Wing D1449 [bound with:] ROSS, Alexander. The Philosophicall Touchstone of Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourses , London: for James Young and sold by Charles Green 1645. 4° (waterstained). Wing R1979, 2 works in one volume, contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece, gilt lettering (rebacked, covers creased in places, extremities lightly rubbed), red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND WORK, second edition of the first work, Digby's chief philosophical work, whose publication marked the introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England. His aim was to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body. In the first treatise Digby provides the first important defence of Harvey's theory of circulation in English. The work also contains "the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read" (Norman 639), a practice Digby had first observed at the Spanish court and on which he had reported to Prince Charles.
DIGBY, Kenelm. Two Treatises in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies, in the other, The Nature of Mans Soule, is looked into: in way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules , London: For John Williams 1645. 2 parts in one volume, 4°, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (some waterstaining, occasional light browning); Wellcome I, p. 408; Wing D1449 [bound with:] ROSS, Alexander. The Philosophicall Touchstone of Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourses , London: for James Young and sold by Charles Green 1645. 4° (waterstained). Wing R1979, 2 works in one volume, contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece, gilt lettering (rebacked, covers creased in places, extremities lightly rubbed), red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND WORK, second edition of the first work, Digby's chief philosophical work, whose publication marked the introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England. His aim was to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body. In the first treatise Digby provides the first important defence of Harvey's theory of circulation in English. The work also contains "the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read" (Norman 639), a practice Digby had first observed at the Spanish court and on which he had reported to Prince Charles.
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