MAUPERTUIS, (PIERRE LOUIS MOREAU DE). - THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE LAWS OF MOTION.

Examen philosophique de la Preuve de L'Existence de Dieu employée dans l'Essai de Cosmologie. Premier-Seconde Partie. (1. Sur l'Evidence & la certitude Mathematique. - 2. Ou l'on examine les Loix de la Nature).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" Tome 12 (1756), With the section-titlepage. Pp. (2),389-424.

Fisr edition of an importent paper in which Maupertuis articulates his final synthesis of his earler work on the status of natural laws of motion and with is reflexions on epistemological certainty. He here coined the term "repliability" to denote the unambigouos truths of arithmetics and geometry.

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