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The Scientific Work of Rene Descartes - 1596-1650 (Paperback)
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The Scientific Work of Rene Descartes - 1596-1650 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes
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When originally published in 1952, this book filled a gap in the
history of philosophy and science and remains an important work
today, because it puts the main mathematical and physical
discoveries of Descartes in an accessible form, for the benefit of
English readers. Descartes is acknowledged to be the founder of
modern mathematics, through his invention of analytical geometry
and this volume charts Descartes' role in bringing a unity into
algebra and geometry and the development of mathematics into a
discipline which could be properly analysed. Carefully paraphrasing
the Geometrie, this volume retains much of Descartes' original
notation as well as the original diagrams. The volume also
discusses the considerable contribution that Descartes made to the
physical sciences which involved accurate work in optics, light,
sight and colour.
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