Softcover without dust jacket. Cover with bumpings noted to edges and creasing noted to corners. Pages clean and bright. This volume reproduces the context in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes' writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his Introduction, Paul Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these three works. This edition includes Descartes' original Index and an updated Bibliography.

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Title: Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology (Revised Edition)
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0872205673
ISBN 13: 9780872205673
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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This volume preserves the format in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes's writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his introduction, Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these three works, which sheds new light on Descartes’s method. Includes an updated bibliography.

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Paul J. Olscamp is Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus, Western Washington University.

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