Man a machine
[microform],
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.

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Main Author

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751.

Related Names

Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.
Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930, translator.
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961.

Language(s)

English

Published

Chicago, The Open court publishing co., 1912.

Subjects

Mind and body.
Materialism.
Physiology > Physiology / Early works to 1800.

Note

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. Pref.
"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."--Pref.

Physical Description

5 p. l., [3], 216 p. incl. facsim. front. (port.) 23 cm.

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