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The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virt...

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The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virt...

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The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue / Matthew L. Jones.

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Full title

The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue / Matthew L. Jones.

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Date

2006.

Call Numbers

T0391030

Record Identifier

74VKK75jzdJd

MMS ID

991021834819702626

Language

English

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Physical content

p. cm.

Contents

Pt. 1. Descartes -- 1. Geometry as spiritual exercise -- 2. A rhetorical history of truth -- Pt. 2. Pascal -- 3. Mathematical liaisons -- 4. The anthropology of disproportion -- Pt. 3. Leibniz -- 5. Forms of expression -- 6. Seeing all at once.

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Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

2006.

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The good life in the scientific revolution : Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the cultivation of virtue / Matthew L. Jones.

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General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transferred from N509.032/3.

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Call Numbers

T0391030

Record Identifier

74VKK75jzdJd

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKK75jzdJd

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ISBN

0226409554 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780226409542 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226409546 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226409559 (pbk. : alk. paper)

DDC

509.032

MMS ID

991021834819702626

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