An essay on blindness, in a letter to a person of distinction : reciting the most interesting particulars relative to persons born blind, and those who have lost their sight : being an enquiry into the nature of their ideas, knowledge of sounds, opinions concerning morality and religion, &c. interspersed with several anecdotes of Sanderson, Milton, and others : with copper-plates elucidating Dr. Sanderson's method of working geometrical problems / translated from the French of M. Diderot, physician to His most Christian Majesty.

  • Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
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An essay on blindness, in a letter to a person of distinction : reciting the most interesting particulars relative to persons born blind, and those who have lost their sight : being an enquiry into the nature of their ideas, knowledge of sounds, opinions concerning morality and religion, &c. interspersed with several anecdotes of Sanderson, Milton, and others : with copper-plates elucidating Dr. Sanderson's method of working geometrical problems / translated from the French of M. Diderot, physician to His most Christian Majesty. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lettre sur les aveugles. English

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London : Printed for J. Barker, No. 7, Little Russell-Court, Drury-Lane, [1780?]

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v, 3 unnumbered pages, 134 pages, 6 leaves of plates

Notes

Item 3 of the advertisements on p.134 for William Bingley is published 1770. The 3rd ed. is suggested by BL to have been issued in 1780, and Barker was active at Little Russell Ct. (address on t.-p.) in 1779-96.

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