Skepticism's pictures : figuring Descartes's natural philosophy /
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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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2023].
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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.