The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.
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Descartes mentions the commentaries of the Coimbrans only twice in his correspondence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Stephen Gaukroger, Harmonie Universelle, John Cottingham, Henry More, Royal Society, Sacred Theory, William Harvey, Isaac Beeckman, Jacques Rohault, The Cambridge Companion, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Theatrum Anatomicum, Claude Clerselier, John Sutton, L'Histoire Anatomique, Princess Elizabeth, Second Essay, Second Replies, Stephen Voss, The Hague, Third Meditation, Desmond Clarke, Jean Riolan New!
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cosecant form, tennis ball model, aliquot quaestionibus physiologicis, pure potentia, optical fragment, ebullition theory, most dense medium, significatory relation, mechanist physiology, optical proofs, brain motions, corporeal imagination, homunculus model, programma quoddam, resemblance assumption, inner homunculus, particular natural philosophy, corporeal memory, perspectival art, imaginative knowing, perceptual cognition, anamorphic art, intentional species, rectilinear inertia, hydrostatic model Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Stephen Gaukroger, Harmonie Universelle, John Cottingham, Henry More, Royal Society, Sacred Theory, William Harvey, Isaac Beeckman, Jacques Rohault, The Cambridge Companion, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Theatrum Anatomicum, Claude Clerselier, John Sutton, L'Histoire Anatomique, Princess Elizabeth, Second Essay, Second Replies, Stephen Voss, The Hague, Third Meditation, Desmond Clarke, Jean Riolan New!
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- The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by John Cottingham on 9 pages
- Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes on 6 pages
- Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics (Harvester readings in the history of science and philosophy ; v. 1) by Stephen Gaukroger on 5 pages
- Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction by Emily R. Grosholz on 5 pages
- Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger on 5 pages
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- The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science) by Peter R. Anstey on 8 pages
- Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger on 7 pages
- Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) by Gary Hatfield on 5 pages
- Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger on 5 pages
- Cartesian Spacetime: Descartes' Physics and the Relational Theory of Space and Motion (International Archives of the History of Ideas, Volume 181) ... internationales d'histoire des idées) by E. Slowik on 4 pages
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