The world and other writings

• 作者： Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
• 其他作者：
  • Gaukroger, Stephen
• 其他題名：
  • Selections.
  • World
• 出版： Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press
• 叢書名： Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
• 主題： Descartes, René, 1596-1650. , Descartes, René, 1591-1661. , Optics--Early works to 1800. , Meteors--Early works to 1800. , Physiology--Early works to 1800.
• ISBN： 0521631580 (hbk.) 、 9780521631587 (hbk.) 、 0521636469 (pbk.) 、 9780521636469 (pbk.)
• 資料類型: 圖書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
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• 摘要註: "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.
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