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UNINA9910454666203321 |
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Descartes René <1596-1650, > |
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The world and other writings / / René Descartes ; translated and edited by Stephen Gaukroger [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998 |
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1-107-11565-5 |
1-282-38889-4 |
9786612388897 |
0-511-64268-7 |
0-511-15028-8 |
0-511-55612-8 |
0-511-60572-2 |
0-511-05103-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxvi, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Optics |
Meteors |
Physiology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the texts; The Treatise on Light; Appendix 1 The Dioptrics; Appendix 2 The Meteorology; Treatise on Man; The Description of the Human Body; Index; Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 sceptically 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 |
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