Descartes and the Enlightenment
β Scribed by Peter A. Schouls
- Publisher
- McGill-Queenβs University Press
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 206
- Series
- McGill-Queenβs Studies in the History of Ideas
- Category
- Library
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