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Descartes' secret notebook : a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and the quest to understand the universe
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Descartes' secret notebook : a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and the quest to understand the universe

著者: Amir D Aczel
出版商: New York : Broadway Books, ©2005.
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A portrait of the great 17th century philosopher and mathematician looks at the contributions of Rene Descartes. His interest in mysticism and probable membership in the occult brotherhood of Rosicrucians, and his secret notebook, which he kept in code, attempting to redecipher the contents of the long lost volume. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and  再读一些...
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类型/形式: Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
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Aczel, Amir D.
Descartes' secret notebook.
New York : Broadway Books, c2005
(OCoLC)625304893
提及的人: René Descartes; René Descartes; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von; René Descartes; René Descartes; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von; René Descartes
材料类型: 传记, 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: Amir D Aczel
ISBN: 0767920333 9780767920339
OCLC号码: 57893775
描述: xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容: Introduction --
Prologue: Leibniz's search in Paris --
Gardens of Touraine --
Jesuit mathematics and the pleasures of the Capital --
Dutch puzzle --
Three dreams in an oven by the Danube --
Athenians are vexed by a persistent ancient plague --
Meeting with Faulhaber and the Battle of Prague --
Brotherhood --
Swords at sea and a meeting in the Marais --
Descartes and the Rosicrusians --
Italian creations --
Duel at Orleans, and the Siege of La Rochelle --
Move to Holland and the ghost of Galileo --
Secret affair --
Descartes' philosophy and the discourse on the method --
Descartes understands the ancient Delian mystery --
Princess Elizabeth --
Intrigues of Utrecht --
Call of the Queen --
Mysterious death of Descartes --
Leibniz's quest for Descartes' secret --
Leibniz breaks Descartes' code and solves the mystery --
Twenty-first century epilogue --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Illustration credits --
Index.
责任: Amir D. Aczel.
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A portrait of the great 17th century philosopher and mathematician looks at the contributions of Rene Descartes. His interest in mysticism and probable membership in the occult brotherhood of Rosicrucians, and his secret notebook, which he kept in code, attempting to redecipher the contents of the long lost volume. 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. After Descartes' 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'. 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' 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.

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