LE CAT CLAUDE NICOLAS Traité des Sens 1742

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LE CAT, CLAUDE-NICOLAS. Traité des Sens. 19 folding engraved plates. [8], 201-32, 253-523, [5] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends rubbed; few gatherings browned. Rouen & Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1742

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The author's most important work, first published in 1740, "treats the anatomy and physiology of the sense organs in a philosophical context" (Becker). "In it Le Cat presented a theory of the propagation of light contrary to that of Newtonian attraction. He further reported on the pigmented choroid coat of the eye and assigned it a common embryonic origin with the pigment of the skin" (DSB). Becker 234; Heirs of Hippocrates 851 (both citing the 1744 edition); DSB VIII, 115.