Essai Physique Sur L'Oeconomie Animale : Augmentée de deux Volumes, & de Tables fort amples : Tome Second
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, Pere, 1747.
Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #16519
Waterstains mostly in margins, chipping to spine head and tail, 2" front free endpaper chip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; French language. Volume Two, ONLY, contains Second Section: Des Parties Intégrantes Des Corps, discusses Acids, Salts and Oils. Also contains 23 page Remarques Sur L'Extraction Des Sels Essentiels Des Mixtes by Hevin. Full speckled calf with six compartment spine, gilt spine lettering and decor, gilt edge roll, marbled endpapers, and marbled edges. Pioneering study of human physiology based on mechanistic and natural laws, by later pioneer of Physiocratic Economics, and physician to King Louis XV. Quesnay explains bodily functions, such as circulation, digestion and nervous system, using Newtonian physics and hydraulic models. He emphasizes the circulation of blood and the "economic" regulation of the body's organs, drawing analogies between the human body and a well-functioning machine or state. ; 662+23 pages.
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