Descartes-Agonistes. Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism 1618--33

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John A. Schuster

Publication date: 4 December 2012

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht) (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

mixed mathematicsnatural philosophyphysico-mathematicsDescartesPrincipiaLe mondeRegulae

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02)

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