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Author La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751.

Uniform Title Homme machine. English and French
Title Man a machine / by Julien Offray de La Mettrie ; French-English including Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on La Mettrie and extracts from La Mettrie's "The natural history of the soul" ; philosophical and historical notes by Gertrude Carman Bussey.

Imprint La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, 1912.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  215 L183m, 1912    ---  Available
Description 216 p. : facsim. ; 21 cm.
Note "The French text presented in this volume is taken from that of a Leyden edition of 1748...The title page of this edition is reproduced in the present volume."--Preface.
The translation is founded on a version made by Miss Gertrude C. Bussey (from the French text in the edition of J. Assezat) and has been revised by Professor M.W. Calkins, who is responsible for it in its present form. cf. Preface.
Translation of: L'homme machine.
Includes index.
Bibliography "Works consulted and cited in the notes": p. [205]-207.
Subject Physiology -- Early works to 1800.
Materialism.
Mind and body.
Added Author Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961.
Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.
Added Title Homme machine.
ISBN 0875480411

 
    
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