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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MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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Lettre sur les aveugles. English

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London : printed for Richard Dymott . opposite Somerset-House, in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

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v,[3],134p., 4 plates ; 120.

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