Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology

by René Descartes, Paul J. Olscamp

Overview

This volume preserves the format in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes's writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his introduction, Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these three works, which sheds new light on Descartes’s method. Includes an updated bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872205680
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2001
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul J. Olscamp is Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus, Western Washington University.

Editorial Reviews

Descartes (1596-1650) intended the four books to be read together, the three on specific subjects demonstrating the methods he describes, but they have generally been studied separately since their first publication. Olscamp (Western Washington U.) brings them back together in a corrected version of his 1963 translation, published by Bobbs- Merrill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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