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  title info:
    title: Descartes-Agonistes
    sub title: Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism 1618-33
  name:
    name part: Schuster, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 632 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. The concern is not simply with the conceptual and technical aspects of these projects; but, with Descartes’ agendas within them and his construction and presentation of his intellectual identity in relation to them. Descartes’ technical projects, agendas and senses of identity shifted over time, entangled and displayed great successes and deep failures, as he morphed from a mathematically competent, Jesuit trained graduate in neo-Scholastic Aristotelianism to aspiring prophet of a systematised corpuscular-mechanism, passing through stages of being a committed physico-mathematicus, advocate of a putative ‘universal mathematics’, and projector of a grand methodological dream. In all three dimensions—projects, agendas and identity concerns—the young Descartes struggled and contended, with himself and with real or virtual peers and competitors, hence the title ‘Descartes-Agonistes’. .
  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.
  note: by John Schuster.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 27
  identifier: 9789400747463
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4746-3
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    record creation date: 121026
    record change date: 20151204152348.0
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