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2018045394Istanbul: Gece Kitapligi 2018. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Demy 8vo. 21 x 14 cm. Edition in English. 2 volumes set: 567 p.; 677 p. Zoonomia; or the laws of organic life. Vol. 1 & 2. Set. The purport of the following pages is an endeavour to reduce the facts belonging to ANIMAL LIFE into classes orders genera and species; and by comparing them with each other to unravel the theory of diseases. It happened perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases that other sciences had received improvement previous to their own; whence instead of comparing the properties belonging to animated nature with each other they idly ingenious busied themselves in attempting to explain the laws of life by those of mechanism and chemistry; they considered the body as an hydraulic machine and the fluids as passing through a series of chemical changes forgetting that animation was its essential characteristic. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature that demonstrates to us that the whole is one family of one parent. On this similitude is founded all rational analogy; which so long as it is concerned in comparing the essential properties of bodies leads us to many and important discoveries; but when with licentious activity it links together objects otherwise discordant by some fanciful similitude; it may indeed collect ornaments for wit and poetry but philosophy and truth recoil from its combinations. The want of a theory deduced from such strict analogy to conduct the practice of medicine is lamented by its professors; for as a great number of unconnected facts are difficult to be acquired and to be reasoned from the art of medicine is in many instances less efficacious under the direction of its wisest practitioners; and by that busy crowd who either boldly wade in darkness or are led into endless error by the glare of false theory it is daily practised to the destruction of thousands; add to this the unceasing injury which accrues to the public by the perpetual advertisements of pretended nostrums; the minds of the indolent become superstitiously fearful of diseases which they do not labour under; and thus become the daily prey of some crafty empyric. <br/> <br/> Gece Kitapligi paperback
2018045392Istanbul: Gece Kitapligi 2018. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Demy 8vo. 21 x 14 cm. Edition in English. 567 p. Zoonomia; or the laws of organic life. Vol. 1. The purport of the following pages is an endeavour to reduce the facts belonging to ANIMAL LIFE into classes orders genera and species; and by comparing them with each other to unravel the theory of diseases. It happened perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases that other sciences had received improvement previous to their own; whence instead of comparing the properties belonging to animated nature with each other they idly ingenious busied themselves in attempting to explain the laws of life by those of mechanism and chemistry; they considered the body as an hydraulic machine and the fluids as passing through a series of chemical changes forgetting that animation was its essential characteristic. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature that demonstrates to us that the whole is one family of one parent. On this similitude is founded all rational analogy; which so long as it is concerned in comparing the essential properties of bodies leads us to many and important discoveries; but when with licentious activity it links together objects otherwise discordant by some fanciful similitude; it may indeed collect ornaments for wit and poetry but philosophy and truth recoil from its combinations. The want of a theory deduced from such strict analogy to conduct the practice of medicine is lamented by its professors; for as a great number of unconnected facts are difficult to be acquired and to be reasoned from the art of medicine is in many instances less efficacious under the direction of its wisest practitioners; and by that busy crowd who either boldly wade in darkness or are led into endless error by the glare of false theory it is daily practised to the destruction of thousands; add to this the unceasing injury which accrues to the public by the perpetual advertisements of pretended nostrums; the minds of the indolent become superstitiously fearful of diseases which they do not labour under; and thus become the daily prey of some crafty empyric. <br/> <br/> Gece Kitapligi paperback
2018045393Istanbul: Gece Kitapligi 2018. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Demy 8vo. 21 x 14 cm. Edition in English. 677 p. Zoonomia; or the laws of organic life. Vol. 2. The purport of the following pages is an endeavour to reduce the facts belonging to ANIMAL LIFE into classes orders genera and species; and by comparing them with each other to unravel the theory of diseases. It happened perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases that other sciences had received improvement previous to their own; whence instead of comparing the properties belonging to animated nature with each other they idly ingenious busied themselves in attempting to explain the laws of life by those of mechanism and chemistry; they considered the body as an hydraulic machine and the fluids as passing through a series of chemical changes forgetting that animation was its essential characteristic. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature that demonstrates to us that the whole is one family of one parent. On this similitude is founded all rational analogy; which so long as it is concerned in comparing the essential properties of bodies leads us to many and important discoveries; but when with licentious activity it links together objects otherwise discordant by some fanciful similitude; it may indeed collect ornaments for wit and poetry but philosophy and truth recoil from its combinations. The want of a theory deduced from such strict analogy to conduct the practice of medicine is lamented by its professors; for as a great number of unconnected facts are difficult to be acquired and to be reasoned from the art of medicine is in many instances less efficacious under the direction of its wisest practitioners; and by that busy crowd who either boldly wade in darkness or are led into endless error by the glare of false theory it is daily practised to the destruction of thousands; add to this the unceasing injury which accrues to the public by the perpetual advertisements of pretended nostrums; the minds of the indolent become superstitiously fearful of diseases which they do not labour under; and thus become the daily prey of some crafty empyric. <br/> <br/> Gece Kitapligi paperback
ria9783742842367_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Zoonomia - Or the laws of organic life is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1796. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science travel and expeditions cooking paperback
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B9781108005494Paperback / softback. New. The two-volume Zoonomia 1794-6 attempts to 'reduce the facts belonging to animal life into classes orders genera and species; and by comparing them with each other to unravel the theory of diseases' and marks a new stage in the development of the science of medicine. paperback
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57923Fine illustrated and antiquarian Natural history . 1st. Ed. Pub. for J. Johnson in St. Pauls Church-yard London. 1794 - 1796. Two volume set with 10 plates 6 hand-coloured. Pages 3 to 6 from the Classes of Diseases not present. 4to. Hardbacks. Some minor spotting and off-setting o/w. contents fine. Original tree-calf boards with more recent spine and very neat repairs to corners. Prov: John Edmonds Stock 1774 - 1835 with his signature dated 1796 and his neat marginal annotations to aid navigation throughout volume I. More recent ownership insc. to both volumes. Scarce first edition. The first consistent all-embracing hypothesis of evolution. A fascinating provenance. John Edmonds Stock Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 and Thomas Beddoes 1760-1808 were contemporaries of each other. Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Beddoes developed a friendship and working relationship. Indeed Darwin praised and referenced the work of Beddoes in Zoonomia. Stock and Beddoes worked together this in part led to Stock being asked to write the Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Beddoes Pub. 1811. King-Hele 1963 wrote that Darwin was unjustly attacked by reactionaries. Stock came to Darwins aid as a staunch supporter of his ideas. The number of annotations Stock made to this copy of Zoonomia can be seen as an indication of his depth of understanding of Darwins work. Fine illustrated and antiquarian Natural history hardcover
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