Lot 620
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von & Samuel Clarke
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
£420
Description
A collection of papers which passed between the late learned Mr Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke, in the years 1715 and 1716. London: J. Knapton, 1717, first edition, 8vo, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Note: The letters concern Newton's views on space, time, and matter and Leibniz' views on these topics and the principle of sufficient reason. Samuel Clarke, English mathematician and philosopher, was a fellow of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge from 1696 to 1700. Babson 229.