The World Or The Treatise Of Light

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN 13 : 3989889850
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World, or the Treatise of light written by René Descartes and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 2023 translation directly from the original manuscripts into English of Descartes' famous work "The World, or the Treatise of the light". This edition contains a new introduction and afterword from the translator, as well as a timeline of Descartes' life and summaries of each of his works. Here, he explores the nature of light and its interaction with matter. It is significant because it helped to establish the idea of light as a wave and had a significant impact on the development of modern physics.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World, or the Treatise of the Light written by René Descartes and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The effect of this man on his age and the new age cannot be imagined broadly enough... René Descartes is indeed the true beginner of modern philosophy, insofar as it makes thinking the principle. "- Hegel "Descartes was the first to bring to light the idea of a transcendental science, which is to contain a system of knowledge of the conditions of possibility of all knowledge." - Kant "Descartes is rightly considered the father of modern philosophy" - Schopenhauer A new 2023 translation directly from the original manuscripts into English of Descartes' famous work "The World, or the Treatise of the light". This edition contains a new introduction and afterword from the translator, as well as a timeline of Descartes' life and summaries of each of his works. Here, he explores the nature of light and its interaction with matter. It is significant because it helped to establish the idea of light as a wave and had a significant impact on the development of modern physics.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511642685
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World and Other Writings written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. This volume offers a new translation of the work, together with a historical introduction and notes on further reading.

Author : Christiaan Huygens
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752308168
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise On Light written by Christiaan Huygens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Treatise On Light by Christiaan Huygens

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521636469
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World and Other Writings written by René Descartes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.

Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009362542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon written by Lawrence Nolan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, "the father of modern philosophy" and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.

Author : Isaac Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy written by Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optics. By Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light, by Christiaan Huygens.

Author : Joseph ibn Nahmias
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520963032
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light of the World written by Joseph ibn Nahmias and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an edition—with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary—of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text’s most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: Treatise on light written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive set of classic books includes the most influential works of literature, philosophy, and science, in the history of the West.

Author : Isaac Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise of the System of the World written by Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: