The world and other writings / / René Descartes ; translated and edited by Stephen Gaukroger [[electronic resource]]
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Descartes René <1596-1650, >
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| Titolo: |
The world and other writings / / René Descartes ; translated and edited by Stephen Gaukroger [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 500 |
| Soggetto topico: | Optics |
| Meteors | |
| Physiology | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GaukrogerStephen |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 matter, a physical optics, and a cosmology. 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 an English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Descartes: The World & Other Writings |
| Titolo autorizzato: | World and other writings |
| ISBN: | 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780075703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.