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CASTEL (Louis). M. Isaac Newton's True System...

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CASTEL (Louis). M. Isaac Newton's True System of General Physics, exposed and analyzed in parallel with Descartes' system; within the reach of the common physicist. P., chez Sébastien Jorry, 1743, 4°, [2]-520 p., 3 folding plates in fine, brown half-basane (very worn and damaged binding, russeting and scattered stitches, wetness on several pages). Original edition of this work in which Castel refutes Newton's system in favour of that of his compatriot Descartes. Uncommon.