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Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature : Descartes and Beyond.
This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the phi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Cartesian Matter; 1 The Vanishing Nature of Body in Descartes's Natural Philosophy; 2 The New Matter Theory and Its Epistemology: Descartes (and Late Scholastics) on Hypotheses and Moral Certainty; Part II: Matter, Mechanism, and Medicine; 3 Post-Cartesian Atomism: The Case of François Bernier; 4 The Matter of Medicine: New Medical Matter Theories in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England; 5 Without God: Gravity as a Relational Quality of Matter in Newton's Treatise.