COURNOT, Traité de l'enchaînement des idées fondamentales, 1861

First edition.
Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801-1877) was a French mathematician, economist, and philosopher, rector of the Dijon Academy. His work Traité de l'enchaînement des idées fondamentales dans les sciences et dans l'histoire (Treatise on the Interconnection of Fundamental Ideas in the Sciences and in History) is considered one of his most important philosophical works. In it, Cournot explores the structure and development of human knowledge, proposing a view of the history of science and history in general as a process of ordered progress. He influenced the development of epistemology and the philosophy of science, emphasizing the distinction between chance and necessity. This work is a major contribution to the history of ideas and the philosophy of knowledge.

With some of handwritten reading notes on separate leaves.

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