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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      November 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511605727
      9780521631587
      9780521636469
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605727
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.405kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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    History, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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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 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.

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    "...an important addition to Descartes scholarship and required reading for those working on Descartes and the history of science." Russell Wahl, Philosophy in Review

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