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-mathematic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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, Physico–mathematical Philosopher of Nature 1629–33
- 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