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Excerpt from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting, the Reason, and Seeking, Truth in the Sciences Descartes' Discourse on Method was published in Leyden, in 1637, and was accompanied by three brief tracts as appendices: the Geometry, the Meteorics, and the Dioptrics. The Discourse on Method was Descartes' intellectual confession of faith, his statement of his own peculiar method of reaching the Truth; the appendices were his documents of justification, specimens of the actual Truth that he had reached by his method. And splendid specimens they were: the invention of analytical geometry, which literally unshackeled mathematical research; the researches in the theory of equations and algebraical symbolism; the enunciation of the law of the refraction of light, which is the beginning of the development of modern optics; the partial explanation of the rainbow; and so forth. All these achievements, far as they may seem from the common life, are shot through the warp and woof of our technical civilisation, and our entire spiritual and material existence bears their hidden impress. Whether our calling, therefore, be that of a philosopher or not, and whatever be our attitude to the problems involved, the contemplation of the methods by which such unique results have been reached is of the highest concern. No one can fail to draw a most bountiful stimulus from these pages. Their freshness and independence of view, their wholesome common sense, their self-reliance, their apotheosis of Reason, are, when we consider the state of mind of the period in which they were written, almost unequalled in history. Here was an absolute break with the authority of tradition, an utter rejection of the past, an utter contempt of books, of the graces of literature and of erudition; while in their place were substituted the ideals of radical doubt, implacable critique, unerring certainty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Pełny tytuł: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting, the Reason, and Seeking, Truth in the Sciences (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: René Descartes
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 100
• EAN: 9781330919484
• ISBN: 9781330919484
• ID: 09701645
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 145 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Data wydania: 07. July 2015

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