| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 208 pages) : illustrations. |
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Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy |
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Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The world and other writings. The treatise on light -- Discourse 2 of the Dioptrics -- Discourse 8 of the Meteors -- The treatise on man -- Description of the human body. |
| Summary |
"Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Optics -- Early works to 1800.
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Meteors -- Early works to 1800.
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Physiology -- Early works to 1800.
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Optique.
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Histoire -- 17e siècle.
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Physiologie.
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SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
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SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Meteors. (OCoLC)fst01018532
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Optics. (OCoLC)fst01046845
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Physiology. (OCoLC)fst01063177
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Optica.
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Fysiologie.
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Meteoren.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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| Added Author |
Gaukroger, Stephen.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1998
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| Note |
Half title: World |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Selections. English. 1998. World and other writings. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521631580 (DLC) 98014404 (OCoLC)38495162 |
| ISBN |
0511001878 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511001871 (electronic bk.) |
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0511035799 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511035791 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511605727 (electronic bk.) |
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0511605722 (electronic bk.) |
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