Ma’amar Ephsharith HaTivith [“Treatise on Natural Potentiality.”]

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GOSLAR, NAPHTALI.

Ma’amar Ephsharith HaTivith [“Treatise on Natural Potentiality.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 2, 29. Some wear, previous owner’s marks. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1807.

Amsterdam: Naphtali Herz Levi Rophe 1762

Est: $300 - $500

Written in dialogue form and partly in rhymed prose, this is the only edition of this anti-Aristotelian philosophical work. The Author (b. 1700) Dayan of Halberstadt, criticizes the doctrine of an uncreated prime matter and polemicizes against deism.