Description: Further DetailsTitle: Descartes: The World and Other WritingsCondition: NewEAN: 9780521636469ISBN: 9780521636469Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/26/1998Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 227mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 410gAuthor: René DescartesContributor: Stephen Gaukroger (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of PhilosophyRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Descartes: The World and Other Writings
Title: Descartes: The World and Other Writings
EAN: 9780521636469
ISBN: 9780521636469
Release Date: 11/26/1998
Release Year: 1998
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Stephen Gaukroger (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Descartes : the World and Other Writings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Physics / Optics & Light, Individual Philosophers, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), General, Astronomy
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1998
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: René Descartes
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
