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A philosophical enquiry into the laws of nature : wherein the essence, the principal heads, the order, the publication, and the obligation of these laws are deduced from the nature of things. Wherein also, the principles of Mr. Hobbes's philosophy... are examined into, and confuted

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Title: A philosophical enquiry into the laws of nature : wherein the essence, the principal heads, the order, the publication, and the obligation of these laws are deduced from the nature of things. Wherein also, the principles of Mr. Hobbes's philosophy... are examined into, and confuted

Other titles: De legibus naturae desquisitio philosophica

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Classmark: BC Pol q/CUM

Creator(s): Cumberland, Richard (1631-1718)

Additional creator(s): Towers, John (fl.1750) (Other); Powell, Samuel (fl.1726-d.1775) (Other)

Related people: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Towers, John; Powell, Samuel

Publisher: printed by Samuel Powell

Publication city: Dublin

Date(s): 1750

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, [viii], [ix]-lxxvi, 597, [3], 134p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/288880

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002628389705181

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Subscribers' list: sig. a.


Title-page dated 1750, but colophon (p. 597) gives date as June 24th, 1751.


Oo3 (pp. 293-4) is a cancel. There is no leaf 3N4, but the pagination shows no gap (Pt. 2 ends on 3N3r).


Includes Towers' Appendix, containing brief lives of founder members of the Royal Society; with part-title, separate pagination and signatures.

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