The World (Descartes) - Contents of The World

Contents of The World

  1. On the Difference Between our Sensations and the Things That Produce Them
  2. In What the Heat and Light of Fire Consists
  3. On Hardness and Liquidity
  4. On the Void, and How it Happens that Our Senses Are Not Aware of Certain Bodies
  5. On the Number of Elements and on Their Qualities
  6. Description of a New World, and on the Qualities of the Matter of Which it is Composed
  7. On the Laws of Nature of this New World
  8. On the Formation of the Sun and the Stars of the New World
  9. On the Origin and the Course of the Planets and Comets in General; and of Comets in Particular
  10. On the Planets in General, and in Particular on the Earth and Moon
  11. On Weight
  12. On the Ebb and Flow of the Sea
  13. On Light
  14. On the Properties of Light
  15. That the Face of the Heaven of That New World Must Appear to Its Inhabitants Completely like That of Our World

Read more about this topic:  The World (Descartes)

Famous quotes containing the words contents of and/or contents:

    “Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “Yet to speak of the whole world as metaphor
    Is still to stick to the contents of the mind
    And the desire to believe in a metaphor.
    It is to stick to the nicer knowledge of
    Belief, that what it believes in is not true.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)