Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception

In Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 124–141 (2007)
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This chapter contains section titled: Background The World and Treatise on Man (1633) Optics (1637) Meteorology (1637) Principles of Philosophy (1644) Conclusion References and Further Reading.

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