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Discours de la méthode: pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences, plus La dioptrique, les météores et la géometrie qui sont des essais de cette méthode
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ISBN: 2213019894 Year: 1987 Publisher: Paris Fayard


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Discours de la méthode: pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences
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ISBN: 2213016992 9782213016993 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris Fayard

The world and other writings
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ISBN: 0521631580 0521636469 9780521631587 9780521636469 9780511605727 0511001878 9780511001871 0511035799 9780511035791 0511605722 9786612388897 6612388897 0511150288 9780511150289 1107115655 1282388894 0511642687 0511556128 0511051034 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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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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