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  1. Analogy and falsification in Descartes’ physics.Gideon Manning - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (2):402-411.
    In this paper I address Descartes’ use of analogy in physics. First, I introduce Descartes’ hypothetical reasoning, distinguishing between analogy and hypothesis. Second, I examine in detail Descartes’ use of analogy to both discover causes and add plausibility to his hypotheses—even though not always explicitly stated, Descartes’ practice assumes a unified view of the subject matter of physics as the extension of bodies in terms of their size, shape and the motion of their parts. Third, I present Descartes’ unique “philosophy (...)
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  • Hero's Pneumatica: A Study of Its Transmission and Influence.Marie Boas - 1949 - Isis 40 (1):38-48.
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  • Theatrum Philosophicum: Descartes Und Die Rolle Ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft.Claus Zittel - 2009 - Akademie Verlag.
    Zu den wenigen unumstößlichen Gewissheiten in der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung zählt die Lehrmeinung, Descartes sei der Ahnherr des philosophischen Rationalismus, also einer Philosophie, die der sinnlichen Erkenntnis misstraue und einzig aus von der Vernunft intuitiv erkannten ersten Prinzipien alle weiteren Kenntnisse mit mathematischer Sicherheit deduziere. Die Anschauung habe seither als eigenständiges Erkenntnisorgan ausgedient, Bilder wurden in der Philosophie liquidiert. Schaut man jedoch nicht nur in die wenigen Texte, auf denen das klassische Descartes-Bild basiert, stellt man mit Verwunderung fest, dass Descartes weit mehr (...)
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  • Seventy-eight vitruvius manuscripts.Carol Herselle Krinsky - 1967 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 30 (1):36-70.
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  • Drebbel's Living Instruments, Hartmann's Microcosm, and Libavius's Thelesmos: Epistemic Machines before Descartes.Vera Keller - 2010 - History of Science 48 (1):39-74.
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  • ‘Exquisite Atmography’: theories of the world and experiences of the weather in a diary of 1703.Jan Golinski - 2001 - British Journal for the History of Science 34 (2):149-171.
    This paper describes and analyses a hitherto unknown document of considerable historical significance: a narrative diary of the weather for every day of the year 1703. Available evidence enables us to assign the authorship of the document, with a high degree of probability, to an Oxford graduate residing in rural Worcestershire. The text presents plentiful natural philosophical speculations about the causes of meteorological phenomena, drawing both upon the ideas of leading scientific thinkers and upon vernacular lore concerning the weather. Furthermore, (...)
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  • Discours de la méthode.René Descartes - 1949 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 3 (4):603-604.
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  • The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy.Sylvia Berryman - 2009 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water, (...)
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  • [Joh. Gerardi Vossii de Philosophia Et Philosophorum Sectis Libri Ii].Gerardus Joannes Vossius - 1657 - Apud Adrianum Vlacq.
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  • Oeuvres.René Descartes - 1987 - Edited by Ch Adam & P. Tannery.
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