BOOKS by Dennis L Sepper

Goethe Contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color more books like this

by Dennis L Sepper

This book explains the background and rationale of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's notorious attack on Isaac Newton's classic theory of white light and colors. Though the merits of Goethe's color science, as advanced in his massive Zur Farbenlehre, have often been acknowledged, it has been almost unanimously proclaimed invalid as ...

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Newton's Optical Writings: A Guided Study more books like this

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Descartes's Imagination more books like this

by Dennis L Sepper

Rene Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorised a radical, unresolvable split between mind and body. In this long-overdue examination of the role of imagination in Descartes's thought, Dennis Sepper reveals a Descartes quite different from the usual dualistic portrayals and offers a critical reconception ...

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