Author: [?LANGE (Johann Peter]:
Title: Democritus Ridens. Sive Campus Recreationum Honestarum. Cum Exoricsmo Melancholiae.
Description: Amstelodami, Apud Jodocum Jansonium. 1649. 12mo, 121 x 68 mms., pp. [ii], 280, printer's ornament on title-page, later (probably late 18th century) dark maroon calf, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments to a blind ornatment, red morocco label, all edges gilt; lacks A1, which is possibly a frontispiece. A very good to fine copy, with the small book label of J. B. St. Colas Canon on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. Various libraries attribute this collection to Johann Peter Lange (fl. 1645), though some manage to designate his namesake, the German Calvinist theologian of the same name (1802 - 1884), who probably was not a laughing philosopher. The anecdotes themselves have little, if any, philosophical content and only serve to prove that the laughing philosopher does not laugh in vain.

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