| Description |
1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 30
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Very short introductions ; 30.
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| Note |
Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987, in series: Past masters. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Matter and Metaphysics -- The discovery of a vocation -- One science one method -- 'Absolutes', simple natures, and problems -- Roaming about in the world -- Paris -- The suppressed physics -- Three specimens of a method -- A new 'logic' -- The need for metaphysics -- The meditations -- Doubt without scepticism? -- The theologians and the God of physics -- Ideas -- The mind -- Body -- The physics made public -- The 'other science' -- Last days -- Descartes's ghost -- Further readings -- Index. |
| Summary |
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured. This book shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Chronological Term |
1600 - 1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sorell, Tom. Descartes. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0192854097 9780192854094 (DLC) 01268447 (OCoLC)47443531 |
| ISBN |
9780191540363 (electronic book) |
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0191540366 (electronic book) |
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1281769959 |
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9781281769954 |
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0192854097 |
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9780192854094 |
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