[Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine.

The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the Frenm by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley’s Miscellaneous Tracts which also include “De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum” in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton’s absolute Space, Time and Motion. (″With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the “precursor of Mach and Einstein” – Karl Popper)].

First English Edition. London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript – annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in “A Word to the Wise”, “Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water”, “The Querist”. From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork.

Bound with: “[Berkeley, George] Bishop of Coyne – “A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne. London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S.Draper, 1752. VI, 267, [1] pages. Title-page witme minor paper-restoration. This wonderful collection by the eminent ANglo-Irish Philosopher includes the following Pamphlets / Tracts, as called for:

1. Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water
2. An Essay towards preventing the Ruin of Great-Britain
3. A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority. Occasioned by the enormous Licence and Irreligion of the Times.
4. A Word to the Wise – Or, an Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland

This section “A Word to the Wise” includes several interesting annotations:
a. an underlining of the sentence: “Seeing you are obnoxious of the Law” with a comment “Oh! infamous″
b. annotation: “the catholic clergy cannot be accused even by there greatest enemies of having been influenced by interested motives, therefore this hint of his lordship was not of much avail″

5. A Letter to the Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Cloyne
6. Maxims concerning Patriotism
7. The Querist – Containing several Queries, proposed to the Consideration of the Public
8. Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
9. A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity, by a College to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called, The Isles of Bermuda
10. A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St.Mary-le-Bow, in 1731
11. De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum

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• Inventory Number: 31752AB

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