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by: Hugh M. Davidson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780521032629
ISBN: 0521032628
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: November 23, 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sales Rank: 4346628
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Product Description:
This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical 'liberal arts'-- rhetoric, dialectic and geometry--pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth, both in his attacks on and in his defenses of tradition. Professor Davidson throws new light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.
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