Mathematisme et tourbillons dans les Principes de la Philosophie de Descartes

The theory of vortices seems to contradict Descartes’s willingness to accept in physics only “principles also accepted in mathematics”. We show that this cosmological theory is on the contrary (i) consistent with the Cartesian mathematical norm – explaining phenomena only by the properties that bodi...

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Main Author: Ange Pottin
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni 2017-06-01
Series:Noctua
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaIV1