Browsing School of History and Philosophy of Science by subject "Descartes"
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Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt
Published 2010-04-01In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical ...Article -
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science
Published 2010-01-01It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated ...Book