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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.



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“Lo gives us a fresh and lively framework for understanding anew both Descartes’s work in his time and the emergence of a Cartesianism fit for other purposes. Skepticism’s Pictures is an important intervention in several current historical and philosophical debates.”

—Harold J. Cook,author of The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War

Skepticisms Pictures

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9780271094823, 978-0271094823
      ISBN10: 0271094826

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review

      “Lo gives us a fresh and lively framework for understanding anew both Descartes’s work in his time and the emergence of a Cartesianism fit for other purposes. Skepticism’s Pictures is an important intervention in several current historical and philosophical debates.”

      —Harold J. Cook,author of The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War

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