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Amstelodami, Typographia Blaviana, sumptibus Societatis, 1686. In 4°. Title page printed in red and black and with a woodcut printer's device featuring an armillary sphere, allegorical figures, and a cartouche with the motto 'Indefessus agendo', numerous woodcut anatomical plates, both full-page and interspersed in the text.
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Third Latin edition (the first Latin edition was in 1662; it was printed in French in 1664) of this fundamental work, the first to attempt to explain the physiology of the human body . The preface is by Claude Clerselier, a disciple of the scientist. Descartes was one of the greatest exponents of mechanical philosophy: he pioneered biological mechanism, viewing the human body as a machine driven by a rational soul, located in the pineal gland.
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