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The philosophicall touch-stone or, Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule

in which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindiated : the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved : and the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing the soules mortality briefly slighted

Also known as The philosophicall touch-stone

by Alexander Ross

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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16 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (19 cm)

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The philosophicall touch-stone

1645Printed for James Young, and are to be sold by Charles Green ...English—Public

in which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindiated : the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved : and the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing the soules mortality briefly slighted

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1645London : Printed for James Young, and are to be sold by Charles Green, at the signe of the gun in Ivie-lane; Printed for James Young, and are to be sold by Charles Green; Printed for James Young, and are to be sold by Charles Green ...English—No ebook

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
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  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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