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Title Monde de Mr. Descartes :ou, le traite' de la lumiere, et des autres principaux objects des sens : avec un discours du mouvement local, & un autre des fiévres
Subject Science--Early works to 1800; Light--Early works to 1800; Movement, Psychology of; Fever
Creator Descartes, René, 1596-1650
Description A major treatise outlining Descartes' philosophy of science, written between 1629 and 1633, but published posthumously. His main aim was ‘to establish that the cause of light is motion', a goal that required formulating ‘an explanation of qualities, a theory of matter, laws of motion, an explanation of the heavens, and a theory of perception'. 1 As part of his matter theory, he published a definitive account of his mechanical philosophy, in which all things were composed of corpuscles of matter in a plenum, or a ‘full' universe of finer and finer particles that swirled in vortices.
Date 1664
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language fra
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Call Number Q155 .D435 1664
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ID 1494261
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