The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution
Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue
336 pages, 9 halftones, 13 line drawings 6 x 9
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2006
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226409542
Published October 2006
Paper $27.50
ISBN: 9780226409559
Published October 2006
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Conventions
Introduction
Part 1: Descartes
1. Geometry as Spiritual Exercise
2. A Rhetorical History of Truth
Part 2: Pascal
3. Mathematical Liaisons
4. The Anthropology of Disproportion
Part 3: Leibniz
5. Forms of Expression
6. Seeing All at Once
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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