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GREENWOOD, Isaac (1702-1745). Philosophical discourse concerning the mutability and changes of the material world; read to the students of Harvard-College, April 7. 1731. Upon the News of the Death of Thomas Hollis, Esq; of London, the most bountiful benefactor to that society. Boston: S. Gerrish, 1731.
4o (183 x 110 mm). Woodcut tailpiece of two cherubs at end. (Without, as usual, the two terminal blanks D3 and D4.) Modern half dark red morocco.
FIRST EDITION. Greenwood, styled on the title "A.M. Hollisian professor of philosophy and mathematicks," reflects on the death of Thomas Hollis (1659-1731), a successful merchant and the first of several generations of this noted British family who made very significant benefactions to Harvard College. In 1721 Hollis established a professorship of divinity, and just four years before his death endowed a chair of mathematics and philosophy. In addition, he donated books and fonts of Greek and Hebrew type to the college. Greenwood's discourse is a wide-ranging consideration of changes, upheavals and transformations occurring in the natural world, including astronomical events (citing Kircher, Newton, Halley, Hooke), ontogeny, volcanoes, the vegetal and animated creation. (The work was also issued in the same year by the same printer as part of Edward Wigglesworth, The Blessedness of the Dead Who Die in the Lord, Evans 3493.) Evans 3426; Sabin 28689. RARE.
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FIRST EDITION. Greenwood, styled on the title "A.M. Hollisian professor of philosophy and mathematicks," reflects on the death of Thomas Hollis (1659-1731), a successful merchant and the first of several generations of this noted British family who made very significant benefactions to Harvard College. In 1721 Hollis established a professorship of divinity, and just four years before his death endowed a chair of mathematics and philosophy. In addition, he donated books and fonts of Greek and Hebrew type to the college. Greenwood's discourse is a wide-ranging consideration of changes, upheavals and transformations occurring in the natural world, including astronomical events (citing Kircher, Newton, Halley, Hooke), ontogeny, volcanoes, the vegetal and animated creation. (The work was also issued in the same year by the same printer as part of Edward Wigglesworth, The Blessedness of the Dead Who Die in the Lord, Evans 3493.) Evans 3426; Sabin 28689. RARE.