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Descartes's Secret Notebook
por Amir D. Aczel
- Novo
- Condição
- Novo
- ISBN 10
- 0767920341
- ISBN 13
- 9780767920346
- Livreiro
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Woodside, New York, United States
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Rene Descartes (1596--1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum" marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes's death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, moved to Paris in search of this notebook--and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes's. Liebniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages--which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Liebniz's hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes's notebook.Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions will lead the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Livreiro
- Cold Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 6888582
- Título
- Descartes's Secret Notebook
- Autor
- Amir D. Aczel
- Formato/Encadernação
- Papeback
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
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- ISBN 10
- 0767920341
- ISBN 13
- 9780767920346
- Editorial
- Random House
- Local de publicação
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- pp. 288
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