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Scepsis scientifica: or, confest ignorance, the way to science; in an essay of the vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion / With a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius [i.e. pseud. of Thomas White].

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680
Date:
1665
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Credit: Scepsis scientifica: or, confest ignorance, the way to science; in an essay of the vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion / With a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius [i.e. pseud. of Thomas White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    288 GLANVILL (Joseph) Scepsis Scientifica, or confest ignorance, the way to Science, in an essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion, with a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius. [White]. £8. 1665 Sm. 4to, orig. calf, newly rebacked, good sound copy, with imprimatur and errata, sig. (d) in 2: also the rare label leaf before title. 2nd ed. (the first in complete form) formerly appearing as an 8vo in 1661, under the title ‘“ Vanity of Dogmatising.’’ Not in Lowndes. At p. 149 (and ?) is a remarkable anticipation of the electric telegraph : Hume’s theory of causation also is said to be anticipated. At p. 134 (Ch. 21) is the passage erroneously assigned by Addison to Wilkins: “‘ It may be some Ages hence, a voyage to the Southern unknown Tracts, yea possibly the Moon, will not be more strange than one to America. To them, that come after us, it may be as ordinary to buy a pair of wings to fly into remotest Regions ; as now a pair of Boots to ride a Journey.”