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  1. Descartes and some predecessors on the divine conservation of motion.Stephen Menn - 1990 - Synthese 83 (2):215 - 238.
    Here I reexamine Duhem's question of the continuity between medieval dynamics and early modern conservation theories. I concentrate on the heavens. For Aristotle, the motions of the heavens are eternally constant (and thus mathematizable) because an eternally constant divine Reason is their mover. Duhem thought that impetus and conservation theories, by extending sublunar mechanics to the heavens, made a divine renewer of motion redundant. By contrast, I show how Descartes derives his law of conservation by extending Aristotelian celestial dynamics to (...)
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  • Physiologia: natural philosophy in late Aristotelian and Cartesian thought.Dennis Des Chene - 1996 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    Physiologia provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to late Aristotelian natural philosophy; with that context in hand, it offers new interpretations of major themes in Descartes’s natural philosophy.
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  • The Greatest Stumbling Block: Descartes' Denial of Real Qualities.Stephen Menn - 1995 - In Roger Ariew & Marjorie Grene (eds.), Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 182--207.
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  • (1 other version)A Treatise on God as First Principle.John Duns Scotus & Allan B. Wolter - 1967 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 23 (3):389-390.
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  • Aristotelis Opera cum Averrois Commentariis.[author unknown] - 1963 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 19 (1):107-109.
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