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LE CAT, Traité des sensations et des passions, 1767
LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.
Traité des sensations.
Paris, Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1767.
Two 8vo (192x123 mm), xcv-264 pages portraict, frontispiece and 2 folding plates / (2)-lvi-[201-684]-4 pages and 17 plates (numbering error without loss 232-253). binding : Contemporary full calf, spine with six compartments. Leather slightly rubbed, headcap of volume 1 chipped. Foxings. Upper margin of half title trimmed.
First edition.
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) a surgeon specializing in the operation of bladder stones remains famous for his work on the senses. Mechanistic doctor for whom sensations are the result of the body acting on the body (the soul therefore does not come into play), his main contribution remains on the understanding of the functioning of vision.
A Treatise on Hearing published the same year will constitute the third volume of these physiological works.
references: DSB ["The Traité des sens, Le Cat's most important work, grew as much out of his researches in physics as in physiology. In it Le Cat presented a theory of the propagation of light contrary to that of Newtonian attraction. He further reported on the pigmented choroid coat of the eye and assigned it a common embryonic origin with the pigment of the skin."].
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