With 2 pages of music, a very large folding lithographed map of Yucatan, Guatemala and Cuba, coloured in outline, each chapter headed by a nice wood-engraved illustration. Voyage dans l’Amérique centrale, l’ile de Cuba et le Yucatan …. First edition of this important account of a voyage to Central America and Cuba The book was probably printed in Amsterdam by Marc-Michel Rey.
552-553 and The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers, vol. His critiques of Christianity were praised by Voltaire and Holbach published a translation of some of Orobio’s polemical writings against Christianity under the title Israel Vengé (see: Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. Some of these works were translated into French and circulated in manuscript, becoming major assets of clandestine French literature. At the same time, deists such as Anthony Collins and Jean Lévesque de Burigny began to show interest in his anti-Christian writings and to buy copies of his works in Amsterdam. Many of Orobio’s writings circulated in manuscript, which were sometimes copied at the instigation of leading representatives of the Sephardi social elite in Western Europe, mainly in the first third of the eighteenth century. Some of his arguments against the doctrine of the Trinity are close to Spinoza’s arguments against the plurality of substance. Throughout his works, Orobio de Castro showed an extreme acute understanding of metaphysics, using his knowledge of Spanish Scholasticism to buttress his religion against freethinkers and liberal and orthodox Christians. Limborch was troubled by Orobio’s anti-Christian views and debated with him (in the presence of van Limborgh’s friend, John Locke): the debate was published shortly after Orobio died and one of Locke’s first publications was a long review of this debate. His most famous works are an extremely rationalistic and scholastic answer to Spinoza in geometrical form, Certamen Philosophicum Propugnatum Veritatis Divinae ac Naturalis (1684) and his own defense of Judaism in a famous debate with Philip van Limborch. Finally, deciding to abandon living as a Christian, he moved to Holland where he became one of the leading intellectual figures in the Spanish-Portugese Jewish community.
After three years in prison he escaped to France and became professor of pharmacy at Toulouse. He was arrested by the Inquisition for secretly practicing Judaism. Isaac Orobio de Castro was born in Braganza, Portugal and became an important Spanish doctor and a professor of metaphysics. Very rare first edition of this work which contains portions of Orobio’s strongest anti-Christian work, the Prevenciones divinas contra la vana idolatria de las gentas and which was used as important ammunition by French atheists against Christianity. Wade, The clandestine organization and diffusion of philosophic ideas in France from 1700 to 1750, chapter viii not in L’Illuminismo francese alla Fondazione Feltrinelli not in Schosler not in Peignot. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, paper covered boards. (B.) Israel Vengé, ou Exposition naturelle des Prophéties Hébraïques que les Chrétiens appliquent à Jésus, leur prétendu Messie.
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