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Macfait, Ebenezer,-1786.
Morgenstern, Karl,1770-1852.
Macfait, Ebenezer,-1786.Remarks on the life and writings of Plato.
Leipzig, : In der Dykischen Buchhandlung,,
1797..
The first edition of the first German translation of "Remarks on the life and writings of Plato", first published in Edinburgh in 1760 by the Scottish scholar-physician Ebenezer MacFait (d. 1786). Macfait's book focuses particularly on Plato's "Republic", and includes a defence of Plato's ideas against the criticisms which appeared in the scholarly works published by the 18th-century English politician Viscount Bolingbroke. This expanded translation was the work of Karl Morgenstern (1770-1852), at this time professor of philosophy at Halle, who had published his own commentary on the "Republic" in 1794.
Published anonymously, as was the original (1760). By Ebenezer Macfait.
Colophon reads: Halle, gedruckt bey Joh. Gottfr. Trampen's Wittwe.
Errata on last page.
The first edition of the first German translation of "Remarks on the life and writings of Plato", first published in Edinburgh in 1760 by the Scottish scholar-physician Ebenezer MacFait (d. 1786). Macfait's book focuses particularly on Plato's "Republic", and includes a defence of Plato's ideas against the criticisms which appeared in the scholarly works published by the 18th-century English politician Viscount Bolingbroke. This expanded translation was the work of Karl Morgenstern (1770-1852), at this time professor of philosophy at Halle, who had published his own commentary on the "Republic" in 1794.
Doodles in pencil on the paper covers, including four faces in profile, and the name 'Tennemann' written in several places, which suggests that this book may have once been owned by a student of Platonic scholar Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (1761-1819), who himself had written a four-volume work "System der Platonischen Philosophie".
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Germany Leipzig.