ANICHKOV DMITRI (1733-1788) Nachal'nye osnovaniya... Lot n° 885

- 227 pages, 12 leaves of diagrams; 20.5x13.5 cm. Twelve engraved tables with geometric figures at the end of the text. In a period full leather binding. Endpapers made of paper with a "peacock feather" pattern. In good condition. Minor losses of leather fragments on the upper part of the spine and the upper corners of the covers, pre-revolutionary owner's inscription on the free endpaper, owner's stamp on the endpaper, pale stains along the edges of the text block. The author of the book, Dmitry Sergeevich Anichkov, was a philosopher-enlightener, logician, publicist, and professor at Moscow University. In 1770, Anichkov began teaching the first philosophical course on ethics ("ucheniya o nravstvennosti i etike"). ["the doctrine of morality and ethics"] in Russia. In 1777, he was awarded the title of Ordinary Professor of Logic, Metaphysics, and Pure Mathematics. According to some sources, Anichkov was a member of a Masonic lodge from 1777. Despite his prolific creativity, most of the manuscripts of his numerous unpublished works were destroyed in a fire. Bibliography: SK XVIII. No. 168.