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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Skepticism's pictures
    sub title: figuring Descartes's natural philosophy
  name:
    name part: Lo, Melissa
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction : arguing with pictures -- The picture multiple -- The composite universe -- Matters of replacement -- Twists of realism -- Ironic copies -- Epilogue : Descartes without pictures.
  note: Melissa Lo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Descartes, René
      name part: 1596-1650
    topic: Illustrations
  subject:
    topic: Scientific illustration
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Illustration of books
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Wood-engraving
    temporal: 17th century
  classification: Q222 .L63 2023
  classification: 502.2/2
  identifier: 9780271094823
  identifier: 0271094826
  identifier: 2022060801
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230105
    record change date: 20230707193411.7
    record identifier: in00004726366