Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology

Name: Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology
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ISBN: 9780872205673

ISBN-10: 0872205673

ISBN-13: 9780872205673

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Rene Descartes, Paul J. Olscamp

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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. A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1965.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 0.35" wide x 8.46" long x 5.47" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Translator's Preface
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason And Searching for Truth in the Sciences
Optics
First Discourse: Of Light	p. 65
Second Discourse: Of Refraction	p. 75
Third Discourse: Of the Eye	p. 84
Fourth Discourse: Of the Senses in General	p. 87
Fifth Discourse: Of the Images That Form on the Back of the Eye	p. 91
Sixth Discourse: Of Vision	p. 101
Seventh Discourse: Of the Means of Perfecting Vision	p. 114
Eighth Discourse: Of the Shapes That Transparent Bodies Must Have in Order to Divert Rays Through Refraction in Every Way That Is Useful to Sight	p. 127
Ninth Discourse: The Description of Telescopes	p. 150
Tenth Discourse: Of the Method of Cutting Lenses	p. 162
Geometry
First Book: Of Problems That Can Be Constructed Using Only Circles and Straight Lines	p. 177
Second Book: Of the Nature of Curved Lines	p. 190
Third Book: Of the Construction of Solid and Supersolid Problems	p. 228
Meteorology
First Discourse: Of the Nature of Terrestrial Bodies	p. 263
Second Discourse: Of Vapors and Exhalations	p. 269
Third Discourse: Of Salt	p. 275
Fourth Discourse: Of Winds	p. 287
Fifth Discourse: Of Clouds	p. 298
Sixth Discourse: Of Snow, Rain, and Hail	p. 307
Seventh Discourse: Of Storms, Lightning, and All Other Fires That Blaze in the Air	p. 322
Eighth Discourse: Of the Rainbow	p. 332
Ninth Discourse: Of the Color of Clouds, and the Circles or Coronas That We Sometimes See Around the Heavenly Bodies	p. 346
Tenth Discourse: Of the Apparition of Several Suns	p. 353
Original Index for the Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology	p. 362
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