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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lo, Melissa, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023].
Subjects:
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.