01415nam a2200313 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040002100152050001000173082001200183100002400195245011500219260004600334300004200380520029300422588004700715504005100762600003600813600005900849650001200908650004000920776003300960856009100993999001701084EDZ0000076280StDuBDS20150804193945.0m||||||||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100819s2010    enka   fo     001 0 eng d  a9780191723155 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDScStDuBDS 4aBD11104a1102221 aSmith, Kurt,d1961-10aMatter mattersh[electronic resource] :bmetaphysics and methodology in the early modern period /cKurt Smith.  aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (x, 299 p.) :bill.8 aWhy is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? 'Matter Matters' explores a 17th-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists.  aDescription based on print version record.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.10aDescartes, Ren�e,d1596-1650.10aLeibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,cFreiherr von,d1646-1716. 0aMatter. 0aMetaphysicsxHistoryy17th century.08iPrint versionz9780199583652403Oxford scholarship onlineuhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583652.001.0001  c38338d38338