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The world and other writings / René Descartes ; translated and edited by Stephen Gaukroger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 1998
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Optics--Early works to 1800.
- Optics.
- Meteors--Early works to 1800.
- Meteors.
- Physiology--Early works to 1800.
- Physiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Descartes: The World & Other Writings
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 475870197
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