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Descartes-Agonistes

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 27)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4746-3

ISBN: 978-94-007-4745-6

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Aug 14, 2012

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Problems of Descartes and the Scientific Revolution

Schuster, John

Pages: 1 –29

[This chapter defines the scope of the work and some of the obstacles to accomplishing it: This volume 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, 1629–1633. The...
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Chapter 2Conceptual and Historiographical Foundations—Natural Philosophy, Mixed Mathematics, Physico-mathematics, Method

Schuster, John

Pages: 31 –98

[This chapter examines a number of conceptual and historiographical issues which frame the entire project. First of all, a model is constructed for how the increasingly competitive and turbulent culture of natural philosophizing worked in the era of Descartes. This model also addresses the...
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Chapter 3‘Recalled to Study’—Descartes, Physico-Mathematicus

Schuster, John

Pages: 99 –166

[This Chapter deals with the early physico-mathematics of Descartes in 1618–1620, which he pursued at first in conjunction with his mentor, Isaac Beeckman, who also had conveyed to him his first inkling of corpuscular-mechanism as an approach to natural philosophy. In the physico-mathematical...
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Chapter 4Descartes Opticien: The Optical Triumph of the 1620s

Schuster, John

Pages: 167 –223

[This chapter reconstructs the genealogy of Descartes’ discovery of the law of refraction; initial development of a theory of lenses; and first attempts, in the years 1626–1628, to explain the law through a mechanistic theory of light. These events of the mid to late 1620s constitute the greatest...
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Chapter 5Analytical Mathematics, Universal Mathematics and Method: Descartes’ Identity and Agenda Entering the 1620s

Schuster, John

Pages: 225 –264

[This chapter shows that since his early days with Beeckman, Descartes had pursued a set of projects related to physico-mathematics, but far outstripping even it in potential scope and invested hopes. From 1618, Descartes had entertained an analytical, problem-solving oriented agenda in...
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Chapter 6Method and the Problem of the Historical Descartes

Schuster, John

Pages: 265 –305

[This chapter pauses our narrative, for a necessary conceptual and historiographical interlude: It addresses the problem of how exactly to handle the young Descartes’ belief in his own method. Modern scholarship in history, philosophy and sociology of science—from Bachelard and Koyré, through to...
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Chapter 7Universal Mathematics Interruptus: The Program of the Later Regulaeand Its Collapse 1626–1628

Schuster, John

Pages: 307 –348

[This chapter returns to our narrative, explaining how all the projects of the young Descartes—physico-mathematics, universal mathematics and universal method—came to a climax and inflection point in the late 1620s. Working in the shadow of Marin Mersenne’s cultural battle against both radical...
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Chapter 8Reinventing the Identity and Agenda: Descartes, Physico-Mathematical Philosopher of Nature 1629–1633

Schuster, John

Pages: 349 –423

[This Chapter deals with Descartes’ struggle to redefine his projects and vocation, given the collapse of the Regulaein 1628. At this point he set out to become something we have not seen him intending to become at any previous moment, the author of a systematic, pro-Copernican and...
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Chapter 9Reading Le Monde as Pedagogy and Fable

Schuster, John

Pages: 425 –451

[This chapter explicates the opening sections of Le Monde. It is particularly concerned with their non-Scholastic rhetoric and organization, given their having been written in the vernacular, in honnête hommestyle. It also explores why some core elements of the system are presented in the form of...
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Chapter 10‘Waterworld’: Descartes’ Vortical Celestial Mechanics and Cosmological Optics in Le Monde

Schuster, John

Pages: 453 –524

[This Chapter brings together two lines of investigation about the natural philosophical structure and aims of Le Monde. First, it shows that Descartes’ often belittled vortex celestial mechanics was a serious intellectual construct: It was Descartes’ technical answer to the natural philosophical...

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