The world and other writings
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The world and other writings
（Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy）
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on the texts
- The World and other writings: 1. The Treatise on Light
- 2. Discourse 2 of the Dioptrics
- 3. Discourse 8 of the Meteors
- 4. The Treatise on Man
- 5. Description of the Human Body
- Index.
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