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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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| Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Scanning Technician | Jaclyn Martin |
| Call Number | Q155 .D435 1664 |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s67t2mks |
| Setname | uum_rbc |
| ID | 1494261 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67t2mks |
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| Title | Page 68 |
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| ID | 1494329 |
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