Search Results: Authors starting with C from Adam Weinberger Books

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), the Swiss-Dutch Arminian pastor, philologist, theologian and erudite journalist, contributed significantly to the dissemination of knowledge to a large European audience. He was one of the most popular intellectuals of his time and author of the famous Bibliothèques, which, for over 40 years, covered topics such as history, law, theology and philology. The platonist Ralp Cudworth was an influential philosopher in the early modern period both for his criticisms of contemporaries like Bayle, Hobbes, Descartes, and Spinoza, and for his own distinctive philosophical viewsRALPH CUDWORTH. The text of Cudworth's magnum opus has first been transmitted in French, due to Jean Le Clerc, in some of the volumes of his Bibliothèque choisie, published between 1703 to 170.The entire work by Pierre Bayle was based on a the French chapter that Bayle read in Volume II, 78 - 130 pp. Nature plastiqueVolume… Read More

VIRGINIA. Message of the Governor, Dec. 7, 1863. Richmond, 1863. DOC. No. 1 8° stitched in original wraps. EXTREMELY RARE CONFEDERATE IMPRINT in commerce, with a powerful speech on the righteousness of the Southern Cause. Wraps with minor chipping and toning. In 1863, during the thick of the American Civil War, Virginia stood as a primary battleground and key stronghold of the Confederate States. By December of that year, the state had already witnessed a series of critical confrontations, most notably the Battle of Chancellorsville in early May. Here, Confederate General Robert E. Lee achieved one of his most remarkable victories, overcoming a numerically superior Union force. Amidst this tumultuous backdrop, the "Message of the Governor, Dec. 7, 1863" would have been delivered, reflecting the state's perspective and condition in a war that was tearing the nation apart. Given the significant events of that year in Virginia, the Governor's message would likely address the state's wartime… Read More