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Skepticism's pictures [electronic resource] : figuring Descartes's natural philosophy / Melissa Lo.

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Lo, Melissa, 1982-
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
xv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Contents
Introduction : arguing with pictures -- The picture multiple -- The composite universe -- Matters of replacement -- Twists of realism -- Ironic copies -- Epilogue : Descartes without pictures.
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
9780271094823 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-205) and index.
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