Descartes-Agonistes Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism 1618-33 /
� This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes projects in physico-mathemat...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4746-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Problems of Descartes and the Scientific Revolution
- Conceptual and Historiographical Foundations.-��Recalled to Study: Descartes Physico-Mathematicus� Descartes Opticien: The Optical Triumph of the 1620s
- nalytical Mathematics, Universal Mathematics and Method: Descartes Identity and Agenda Entering the 1620s.-�Method and the Problem of the Historical Descartes.-� Universal Mathematics Interruptus: The Program of the later Regulae and its Collapse 1626-28
- Reinventing the Agenda and Identity: Descartes, Physicomathematical Philosopher of Nature 162933.-� Reading Le Monde as Pedagogy and Fable
- Waterworld: Descartes Vortical Celestial Mechanics and Cosmological Optics in Le Monde. - Le Monde as a System of Natural Philosophy
- Cosmography, Realist Copernicanism and Systematising Strategy in the Principia Philosophiae
- Conclusion: The Young and the Mature Descartes Agonistes
- Appendix 1 Descartes, Mydorge and Beeckman: The Evolution of Cartesian Lens Theory 1627-1637.-��Appendix 2 Decoding Descartes Vortex Celestial Mechanics in the Text of Le Monde.