"First edition. Quarto. pp [20], 403, [29]. Title page in red and black. Some 100 illustrations to text showing physical or geometrical calculations. Fourteen leaves summary to rear. Imprimatur. Sam. Parker, . Ex Ædibus Lambeth. Jul. 21. 1670 to verso of title page. Contemporary or near contemporary polished black calf, spine rubbed, raised bands, gilt lines and label, edges specked, nice clean crisp text, bookplate to recto of endpaper. Henry More (1614-1687), was an influential Jesuit, Neoplatonist, and philosopher. This work on metaphysics profoundly influenced the development of Newton s thought, "It seems undeniable that Newton read and was influenced by More s views on space and time, as presented in the Enchiridion metaphysicum …Like More, Newton also believed that for something to exist it must exist in space, and he identified the immensity of infinite space with the extension of God …the similarities between their views of space and time, and their relationship to God, guarantees More s place in the history of science." (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy). A very good example of rather an unusual but important volume in its first edition. ESTC R9574."