| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 384 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-361) and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Conventions; Introduction; PART 1 : DESCARTES; 1 Geometry as Spiritual Exercise; 2 A Rhetorical History of Truth; PART 2 : PASCAL; 3 Mathematical Liaisons; 4 The Anthropology of Disproportion; PART 3 : LEIBNIZ; 5 Forms of Expression; 6 Seeing All at Once; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind?guidance for living a good life. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of. |
| 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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Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
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Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. |
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716. |
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Descartes, Ren, 1596-1650. |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. |
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716. |
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Matthew L. (Matthew Laurence), 1972- Good life in the scientific revolution. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 0226409546 0226409554 (DLC) 2006040491 (OCoLC)64208374 |
| ISBN |
9780226409566 (electronic book) |
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0226409562 (electronic book) |
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1281957232 |
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9781281957238 |
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0226409546 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226409554 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226409542 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226409559 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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