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 vindicated, the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved : And the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing The soules mortality, briefly slighted / by Alexander Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654, author.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Young, James, active 1642-1653, publisher..

Greene, Charles, active 1631-1648, bookseller.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665.

Digby, Kenelm.

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (bookplate) (Smith copy)

Schorsch, Irvin G., 1927-2014 (bookplate) (Smith copy)

Watts, William, 1590?-1649 (autograph) (Smith copy)

Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654 (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 131, [1] pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Distribution:

London : ... and are to be sold by Charles Green, 1645.

Other Title:

Philosophicall touch-stone

Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie’s Discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule

Fingerprint:

rend eney oto- liou (3) 1645 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for James Young ..., 1645.

Notes:

"A reply to 'Two treatises: in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule, is looked into' by Sir Kenelm Digby and to 'Mans mortalitie' by Richard Overton."--ESTC.

Signatures: a⁴ A-R⁴ S².

Title within border of double rules.

Woodcut initials and head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Type ornament head-pieces and tail-piece.

Local Notes:

Smith copy has early manuscript notes on leaves a1r and S2v.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Michael Laird Rare Books LLC.

Smith copy has illustrated bookplate of Charles W. Burr affixed to front pastedown; armorial bookplate of I.G. Schorsch affixed to front free endpaper.

Smith copy has on leaf a1r dated 17th-century manuscript note ("Ex dono doctissimi Eruditissim[..] viri Alex. Ross. Jun: 14. 1645") recording the gift of this volume by the author on 14 June 1645; early autograph ("Wm Watts") of William Watts on leaf a1r; partially illegible early manuscript note ("Ex dono [...]ssimi [...] [...] Alex. Ross.") recording the gift of this volume by the author at head of title leaf.

Smith copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of another copy affixed to front pastedown.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

ESTC R200130

OCLC:

14310717