Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology (Revised Edition)
Rene Descartes with Paul J. Olscamp translating
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2001
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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)
- Author
- Rene Descartes with Paul J. Olscamp translating
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0872205673
- ISBN 13
- 9780872205673
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2 X 8 1/2
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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About the Author
Paul J. Olscamp is Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus, Western Washington University.
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