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The World and Other Writings (Texts in the History of Philosophy)

The World and Other Writings (Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Stephen Gaukroger
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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 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.
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
November 26, 1998
ISBN
0521631580
ISBN 13
9780521631587

The World and Other Writings (Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Stephen Gaukroger
3.5/5 ( ratings)
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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 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.
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
November 26, 1998
ISBN
0521631580
ISBN 13
9780521631587

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