Descartes-agonistes : physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism, 1618-33 / John Schuster.
Pubblicazione:
Dordrecht : Springer, c2013.
Descrizione fisica:
XIX, 631 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Studies in history and philosophy of science, 0929-6425 ; 27
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Introduction: Problems of Descartes and the scientific revolution 2. Conceptual and historiographical foundations: natural philosophy, mixed mathematics, physico-mathematics, method 3. Recalled to study: Descartes, Physico mathematicus 4. Descartes opticien: the optical triumph of the 1620s 5. Analytical mathematics, universal mathematics and method: Descartes' identity and agenda entering the 1620s 6. Method and the problem of the historical Descartes 7. Universal mathematics interruptus: the program of the later Regulae and its collapse (1626-1628) 8. Reinventing the identity and agenda: Descartes, physico-mathematical philosopher of nature (1629-1633) 9.Reading Le monde as pedagogy and fable 10. Waterworld: Descartes' vortical celestial mechanics and cosmological optics in Le monde 11. Le monde as a system of natural philosophy and Gambit in the field 12. Cosmography, realist Copernicanism and systematising strategy on the Principia philosophiae 13. 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
ISBN:
9789400747456
Altri titoli:
Descartes-agonistes : physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism, 1618-33 /
