DESCARTES (René).

Musicae Compendium.

Amstelodami, apud Joannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1656. in-4. 2ff. 34pp. (1f.blanc). Demi-veau modernegenre ancien. Seconde édition du premier ouvrage de Descartes rédigé en 1618, à l'âge de 22 ans, et qui ne fut publié pour la première fois qu'en 1650, quelques mois après la mort de l'auteur. "After graduating in law from the University of Poitiers, as a gentleman volunteer in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau in 1618 (Descartes) met Isaac Beeckman at Breda. Beeckman aroused him to self-discovery as a scientific thinker and introduced him to a range of problems, especially in mechanics and acoustics, the subject of his first work, the Compendium Musicae of 1618; published posthumously in 1650" (D.S.B.). "The Compendium is both a treatise on music and a study in methodology. In it Descartes shows himself to be a link between the musical humanists in the 16th century - he was influenced particularly by Zarlino, whom he cited - and the scientists of the 17th. The work is noteworthy as an early experiment in the application of empirical, deductive, scientific approach to the study of sensory perception and being among the earliest attempts to define the dual relationship between the physical and physiological phenomena of music." (Special Collection Columbia University). Nombreux diagrammes gravés sur bois dans le texte. Petite mouillure marginale, quelques rousseurs. D.S.B., IV, p.51.

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