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Claude Buffier - L'AFRIQUE, SUIVANT LES DERNIERES DELL'ACCADEMIA ROYALE DES SCIENCES
Paris: Pierre-Francois Giffart, (1722) [c1740]
Copperplate engraving, uncoloured, three vertical folds, offsetting, pencil notes in margins, small damp mark on right edge, few foxing spots, top left corner: pag.315
13,6 by 17,5cm
from Geographie Universelle, Volume VII
Buffier, a French Jesuit priest, was born in Warsaw, but spent most of his life in Paris. He was a philosopher, historian, philologist, and educator. In his writings, he rejected the deductive reasoning of the Cartesian method and instead promoted the use of common sense and concluded â??objects external to the human mind do indeed have their own separate existencesâ??.
LITERATURE
Encyclopedia Brittanica, Claude Buffier, Accessed 25 January 2021,
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