CABANIS, Pierre-Jean-George. Rapports du Physique et du Morale de l'Homme. Paris, Crapart, Caille et Ravier, An X - 1802
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2 vols small 8vo, mm. 190x120; Contemporary half calf binding, golden titles and ornaments on the spine; pp. XLIV, 484;pp. [4], 624.
FIRST EDITION. The most important work of the illustrious physiologist and philosopher of medicine, considered one of the reformers of the health and hospital system in France in the Napoleonic period, and considered one of the founders of anthropology.
Gillispie: “His fundamental philosophical work... is composed of twelve Mémoires collected in one volume [in realtà due, n.d.r.] in 1802. In this work Cabanis sets forth a psychological and an ethical system based on the necessary effects of an animal's organisation upon its relationship with its environment... Cabanis deemed as too abstract and limited Condillac's method of analysis, which regarded all psychic functions as transformations of sensations... Borrowing the word from the German philosophers, Cabanis termed the science of man as anthropologie.”
Gillispie, D.S.B., III, pp. 1-2].
Condition Report: Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
FIRST EDITION. The most important work of the illustrious physiologist and philosopher of medicine, considered one of the reformers of the health and hospital system in France in the Napoleonic period, and considered one of the founders of anthropology.
Gillispie: “His fundamental philosophical work... is composed of twelve Mémoires collected in one volume [in realtà due, n.d.r.] in 1802. In this work Cabanis sets forth a psychological and an ethical system based on the necessary effects of an animal's organisation upon its relationship with its environment... Cabanis deemed as too abstract and limited Condillac's method of analysis, which regarded all psychic functions as transformations of sensations... Borrowing the word from the German philosophers, Cabanis termed the science of man as anthropologie.”
Gillispie, D.S.B., III, pp. 1-2].
Condition Report: Slight sign of foxing, good copy.
