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Skepticism's pictures: figuring Descartes's natural philosophy

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"Explores the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Cartesian philosophy. Locates Descartes's physics and its reception in a panoramic visual culture, where knowledge of the invisible depended on what could be seen"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction : arguing with pictures -- The picture multiple -- The composite universe -- Matters of replacement -- Twists of realism -- Ironic copies -- Epilogue : Descartes without pictures.

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    University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

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    1600-1699

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    • 9780271094823
    • 0271094826

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