Study of questions concerning being, thought, knowledge, and conduct for which no objective answers have been established, using logical reasoning

Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.

The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.

Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.

Plato discussing philosophical matters with others in the garden of the Academia. Etching by Salvator Rosa.

The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. The two first books, concerning the deluge and concerning paradise / [Thomas Burnet].

De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].

Emblem representing the path to the philosopher's stone in alchemy. Etching by Defehrt, 1768, after L.-J. Goussier, after the frontispiece to a 17th century book by Libavius.

Oxford: Friar Bacon's study, with the river. Line engraving.

A man writing; representing the faculty of memory. Engraving, 16--.

1 volume<br/>189 leaves + 10 [9] pp. + 5 bl. leaves + 8 leaves (last blank). 4to. 201/2 ? 15 cm. Original boards. A foliation has been added in pencileave Some preliminary leaves appear to be wanting, and the first and last few leaves are wormed.

Physica

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

Sertorio, Dominico Philippo

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

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Physica

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

Sertorio, Dominico Philippo

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

Philosophy

Images from the collections

Images about Philosophy

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Physica

The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

Sertorio, Dominico Philippo

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

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