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, both in a State of Nature, and of Civil Society, are examined into, and confuted. Written originally in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Cumberland, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Peterborough. And translated into English, With large Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix, by the Reverend John Towers, D. D. Prebendary of St. Patrick's Cathedral Church, Dublin, and Vicar of Castleknock, &c.
Richard Cumberland (1631-1718)
Category
Books
Date
1750
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222609
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,[8],ix-lxxvi,597,[3],134p. ; 4to. Pencil mark "SR-B2". Provenance: No ownership marks. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf, five raised bands. Brown leather spine label lettered in gilt "Dr Towers's notes &c on Bp. Cumberland Laws Nature". Edges sprinkled brown.
Makers and roles
Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) Towers, John, of Dublin