The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of Rene Descartes [1 ed.] 0881350982, 9780881350982

Cogito, ergo sum: the life of Rene Descartes 1567921841

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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers 9780753552827, 9780753552797

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The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue 9780226409566

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Descartes and the Scientific Revolution, 1618-1634: An Interpretation

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Scientific Magic

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The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution 9780822380351

A study of monstrosity and baroque poetics in the cultural context of 17-century Italy.

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Magic of the Future

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The Magic of Spain

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Atala and Rene 9780520904811

Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English

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The structure of magic

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