"Explores the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Cartesian philosophy. Locates Descartes's physics and its reception in a panoramic visual culture, where knowledge of the invisible depended on what could be seen"-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction : arguing with pictures -- The picture multiple -- The composite universe -- Matters of replacement -- Twists of realism -- Ironic copies -- Epilogue : Descartes without pictures.