Descartes-Agonistes: physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33
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CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS OF DESCARTES AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION .
LI PROLOGUE: THE YOUNG AND THE MATURE DESCARTES, NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
I
1.2 DESCARTES AND THE HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE 3
1.3 KEY PITFALLS (AND OPPORTUNITIES) FACING DESCARTES BIOGRAPHERS (EVEN
AUTHORS OF QUITE TRUNCATED BIOGRAPHIES).... 8
1.3.1 THE PROBLEM OF METHOD AND ITS TEXTS: REGULAE AND DISCOURS 8
1.3.2 THE PROBLEM OF DESCARTES THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER, AND OF NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY AS A WIDE AND DYNAMIC FIELD OF DISCOURSE AND CONTENTION 10
1.3.3 SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE 13
1.4 OVERVIEW OF THE
ARGUMENT...............................................................
19
REFERENCES.. 26
2 CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL FOUNDATIONSNATURAL PHILOSOPHY, MIXED
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS, METHOD... 31
2.1 JESUIT NEO-SCHOLASTICISM FOR THE NOBLESSE DE ROBE 31
2.2 IN SEARCH OF PROPER CATEGORIES AND ANGLE OF
ATTACK....................... 35
2.3 CONSTRUCTING THE CATEGORY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, PART I-NATURAL
PHILOSOPHIZING AS CULTURE AND PROCESS.................. 37
2.4 SOME HEURISTIC HE1P: MODELING MODERN SCIENCES AS UNIQUE, AGONAL
TRADITIONS IN PROCESS 44
2.5 CONSTRUCTING THE CATEGORY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, PART 2: THE
DYNAMICS AND RULES OF CONTESTATION OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHIZING 49
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2.5.1 ARTICULATION ON SUBORDINATE DISCIPLINES:
GRAMMAR AND SPECIFIC UTTERANCE 50
2.5.2 FIND OR STEAL DISCOVERIES, NOVELTIES OR FACTS, INC1UDING
EXPERIMENTAL ONES 53
2.5.3 BEND OR BRAKE ARISTOTLE S RULES ABOUT MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY: THE GAMBIT OF PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS 56
2.5.4 HOT SPOTS OF ARTICULATION CONTEST: ADDITIONAL CAUSES AND EFFECTS
OF HEIGHTENED TURBULENCE IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHIZING 59
2.5.5 MODELING SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION AND CONTE STATIONTHE CORE ,
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL DIMENSIONS OF A NATURAL PHILOSOPHICAL
SYSTEM....................................... 62
2.5.6 THE MECHANICS OF RESPONDING TO OUTSIDE CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES 65
2.6 THE SPECIAL STATUS OF THE PROBLEM OF METHOD 70
2.7 PHASES AND STAGES IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION SEEN AS AN U
NFOLDING PROCESS IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHIZING, WITH ITS
ATTENDANT ARTICULATIONS TO OTHER DOMAINS 77
2.8 LOOKING FORWARD-WHAT KIND OFNATURAL PHILOSOPHER/
PHYSICO-MATHEMATICIAN WAS RENE DESCARTES? 88
REFERENCES.................................................................................................
93
3 RECALLED TO STUDY -DESCARTES, PHYSICO-MATHEMATICUS 99
3.1 INTRODUCTION... 99
3.2 BEECKMAN: MENTOR AND COLLEAGUE IN PHYSICOMATHEMATICS AND NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY 104
3.2.1 CORPUSCULAR-MECHANICAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE VALUES OF THE
PRACTICAL ARTS 104
3.2.2 BEECKMAN S CAUSAL REGISTER, PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS AND VERSION OF
PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS 108 3.3 EXEMPLARY PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS: THE
HYDROSTATICS MANUSCRIPT OF
1619.............................................. 112
3.3.1 STEVIN, ARCHIMEDES AND THE HYDROSTATIC PARADOX................ 113
3.3.2 THE HYDROSTATICS MANUSCRIPT [1] THE MICRO-CORPUSCULAR REDUCTION
114
3.3.3 THE HYDROSTATICS MANUSCRIPT [2] THE FORCE OF MOTION 121
3.4 WHAT S THE AGENDA: DESCARTES RADICAL FORM OF PHYSICO-
MATHEMATICS.... 124
3.5 THE PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS OF NATURAL
FALL....................................... 128
3.5.1 INTRODUCTION-THE STUDY OFFALL AS [ABORTIVE] PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS
128
3.5.2 BEECKMAN S PROBLEM, AND HIS VERSION OF DESCARTES
SOLUTION............................................ 130
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3.5.3 DESCARTES SOLUTION-TRIUMPHS AND PITFALLS OF A PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS
OF FALL...................................... 134
3.5.4 HOW AND WHY DESCARTES HIT A
PITFALL................................ 139
3.5.5 THE PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS OFFALL STALLS-TOO MANY LAWS, TOO MANY
CAUSES, NO MEASUREMENTS........... 145 3.6 A PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL FORAY
INTO OPTICS (1620) 153
3.7 CONCLUSION: OPTIONS, PITFALLS AND
TRAJECTORIES............................... 163
REFERENCES. 165
4 DESCARTES OPTICIEN: THE OPTICAL TRIUMPH OFTHE
1620S....................... 167
4.1 GENEALOGICAL DETECTIVE WORK-HINTS, CLUES AND THE PROBLEMATICAL TEXT
OF THE DIOPTRIQUE 167
4.2 CARTESIAN DYNAMICS IN LE MONDE 169
4.3 MAKING SENSE OF THE PROOFS OF THE LAWS OF REFLECTION AND REFRACTION
IN THE DIOPTRIQUE 173
4.4 DESCARTES DYNAMICAL PREMISES: DEMONSTRATIVE EFFICACY AND EMPIRICAL
WEAKNESS 178
4.5 DESCARTES ROUTE TO THE LAW OF REFRACTION 1619-1627.................
184
4.5.1 THE MYDORGE LETTER OF
1626/1627..................................... 184
4.5.2 LENS THEORY AND THE DATE OF THE MATERIAL IN MYDORGE S
LETTER............................................................ 186
4.5.3 TRADITIONAL GEOMETRICAL OPTICS AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE COSECANT
FORM OF THE LAW....................................... 188
4.6 THE DYNAMICAL PREMISES FOR THE DEDUCTION OF THE SINE LAW OF
REFRACTION: THEIR PRE-HISTORY AND HISTORY 1618-1629............. 190 4.7
THE MECHANICAL THEORY OFLIGHT 1620-1628................................
194
4.7.1 EXPOSITORY STRATEGY AND WORKING DISTINCTIONS.................. 194
4.7.2 REPRISE-THE OPTICAL FRAGMENT OF 1620...........................
195
4.7.3 LIGHT AS AN INSTANTANEOUSLY TRANSMITTED MECHANICAL IMPULSE
1626-1628........................................ 197
4.7.4 LIGHT AS MECHANICAL IMPULSE AND THE EXPLANATION OF THE LAW OF
REFRACTION 1626-1628- THE BALANCE BEAM
MODEL.......................................................................
199
4.8 FULL CIRCLE: CARTESIAN DYNAMICS, OPTICS AND THE TENNIS BALL MODEL
1628-1633.......................................... 204
4.8.1 THE EXEMPLAR FOR DESCARTES LAWS OF DYNAMICS IN HIS
PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL OPTICS 204
4.8.2 IN A SPIN OVER TENNIS BALLS AND BOULES OF SECOND ELEMENT:
CARTESIAN DYNAMICS, OPTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF COLOR 209
4.9 GRIST FOR THE METHOD MILL: METHOD AND OPTICS IN RULE 8 OF THE
REGULAE AD DIRECTIONEM INGENII............................ 215
4.10 CONCLUSION: LOOKING FORWARD-MATHEMATICS AND METHOD:
1618-1629................................................................
220
REFERENCES.... 221
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5 ANALYTICAL MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS AND METHOD:
DESCARTES IDENTITY AND AGENDA ENTERING THE
1620S............................ 225
5.1 INTRODUCTION: THE STRUGGLE OVER MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS
AND METHOD 225
5.2 THE UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS OF 1619: RULE 4 OFTHE REGULAE 230 5.3
READING RULE 4: METHOD AND UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS 235
5.4 STRAINING AT THE CLASSICAL BIT: DESCARTES EARLY WORK IN ANALYTICAL
MATHEMATICS............................................ 239
5.5 GENESIS AND DATING OF UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS 242
5.6 THE CORE OF DESCARTES METHOD DISCOURSE IN THE EARLY REGULAE 248
5.7 THE MAKING OF CARTESIAN METHOD-TALK, WINTER 1619-1620........... 257
5.8 CONC1USION: DESCARTES UNFOLDING AGENDAS AND IDENTITIES
1618-1620.................................................................
260
REFERENCES...... 262
6 METHOD AND THE PROBLEM OFTHE HISTORICAL
DESCARTES.......................... 265
6.1 THE WAY FORWARD: BETWEEN NAIVE BELIEF AND PURE
DEBUNKING.........................................................................
265
6.2 THE CULT OF METHOD IN DESCARTES STUDIES 266
6.3 DESCARTES METHOD AS MYTHIC SPEECH: WHERE MYTH IS NOT A COLLOQUIAL
TERM OF ABUSE 270
6.4 THE FAILURE OF ADEQUATE REDESCRIPTION: AN EXAMPLE OF DESCARTES
ATTEMPTING TO METHODOLOGIZE A FIELD OF INQUIRY 273
6.5 THE STRUCTURAL LEVELS AND UNDERLYING METAPHORS IN DESCARTES [OR
ANYBODY S] METHOD DISCOURSE............................. 280
6.6 THE FIRST TWO STRUCTURAL EFFECTS : ADEQUATE REDESCRIPTION AND
APPLICATION 283
6.7 THE THIRD AND FOURTH EFFECTS : THE UNITY AND PROGRESS OF A
METHOD DISCOURSE............................................. 286
6.8 THE RHETORICAL FUNCTIONS OF CARTESIAN (AND OTHER) METHOD
DISCOURSES... 293
6.9 RETHINKING METHOD AND THE CAREER OF DESCARTES 297
6.9.1 THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION OF DESCARTES METHOD: BRICOLAGE,
SELF-DECEPTION AND SELF-DEFINITION 297
6.9.2 THE FAILURE OF THE REGULAE, THE BIRTH OF THE SYSTEM AND THE
PROBLEM OF THE CYNICAL DISCOURS DE LA METHODE 299
REFERENCES.................................................................................................
303
7 UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS INTERRUPTUS: THE PROGRAM OFTHE LATER REGULAE AND
ITS COLLAPSE 1626-1628................................ 307
7.1 INTRODUCTION- TOWARD THE RENEWED PROJECT OF MATHESIS UNIVERSALIS IN
THE LATER REGULAE 307
7.2 RULE 8: THE EMERGENCE OFTHE PROJECT OFTHE LATER REGULAE 311
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7.3 RULE 12: FROM MOST SPLENDID EXAMPLE TO THE ARTICULATION OF THE
MACHINERY OF UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS....................................
314
7.4 RULES 14-18: THE MACHINERY OF UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS 320
7.5 THE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSAL MATHEMATICS IN THE LATER RULES AND ITS
LEGITIMATORY FUNCTIONS 328
7.6 THE INSTABILITY OF THE LATER REGULAE AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE
ORIGINS OF CARTESIANISM 334
7.6.1 DISCURSIVE CORPUSCULAR-MECHANISM IN TENSION WITH GENUINE
MATHEMATIZATION AND THE AIMS OF THE O-P-P NEXUS 334
7.6.2 AMBUSHED BY THE UNEXPECTED MANIFESTATION OF THE PROBLEMATIC OF
MODEM (CARTESIAN) EPISTEMOLOGY 339
7.6.3 ANALYTICAL MATHEMATICS WORKS AND IS USEFUL, BUT RESISTS MAPPING
ONTO THE LEGITIMATORY 0- P-P NEXUS..... 343
7.7 CONCLUSION- THE PROJECT OF THE LATER REGULAE AND THE INFLECTION OF
DESCARTES AGENDA AND IDENTITY TOWARD SYSTEMATIC NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND
METAPHYSICAL GROUNDING 345
REFERENCES... 347
8 REINVENTING THE IDENTITY AND AGENDA: DESCARTES, PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL
PHILOSOPHER OF NATURE 1629-1633................... 349
8.1 THE PROBLEM OF DESCARTES CAREER INFLECTION POINT AND HOW TO
APPROACH
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349
8.2 FUNDAMENTAL INTELLECTUAL AGENDAS AND PROJECTS 1629-1633...........
352 8.2.1 THE EMERGENCE OF CARTESIAN METAPHYSICAL DUALISM........... 353
8.2.2 SOME VOLUNTARIST THEOLOGY AND ITS STRATEGIE USES.............. 360
8.2.3 PLENIST OR HOLISTIC
REALISM................................................... 373
8.3 EVENTS AND INTERACTIONS PARTIALLY SHAPING THE MOTIVES FOR AND
CONTENT OF LE MONDE 384
8.3.1 ABANDONMENT OF THE LATER REGULAE ACTUALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT
EVENT OF ALL....................................... 384
8.3.2 THE CHANDOUX EPISODE AND RELATIONS WITH CARDINAL BERULLE: METHOD
AMI/OR METAPHYSICS AND THE DEFEAT OF SCEPTICISM.. 385
8.3.3 CHALLENGE OF RENEWED INTERACTION WITH BEECKMAN 390
8.3.4 THE GALILEO AFFAIR AND ITS PERCEIVED MEANINGS...................
394
8.4 THE CHRONOLOGY OF LE MONDE 399
8.4.1 INTRODUCTION: SLIDING AND TINKERING TOWARD A SYSTEM OF NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY 399
8.4.2 OPTICS-PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL, MIXED AND PRACTICAL......... 400
8.4.3 TOUS LES PHAINOMENES SUBLUNAIRES -THE PARHELIA: GRASPING
OPPORTUNITIES AND PREGNANT PROBLEMS.................. 404
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8.4.4 TOUS LES PHAENOMENES DE LANATURE -LE MONDE BEGINS TO CRYSTALLIZE
405
8.4.5 REPRISE: IN A SPIN OVER LIGHT AND COLOR 407
8.4.6 DESCARTES AT WORK, NOVEMBER 1629 TO APRIL 1630.......... 408 8.4.7
SPRING TO AUTUMN 1630-WRITER S MELANCHOLY, VISIONING, SPINNING AND
DEALING WITH BEECKMAN 410 8.4.8 ORGANIZING THE SYSTEM AND
HIMSELF-INVESTIGATIONS,
DECISIONS, HESITATIONS 413
8.5 AN EXERCISE IN COUNTER-FACTUAL HISTORY: IF THE REGULAE HAD NOT
FAILED 416
8.6 ASPIRATION, IDENTITY AND STRATEGY AT THE BIRTH OF LE MONDE: BETWEEN
NATURAL HISTORY AND APRIORI SCIENCE 418
REFERENCES........... 421
9 READING LE MONDE AS PEDAGOGY AND
FABLE........................................... 425
9.1 INTRODUCTION 425
9.2 THE GROUND PLAN OF LE
MONDE....................................................... 426
9.3 THE COMMON SENSE OF CORPUSCULAR-MECHANISM POUF LES HONNETES
HOMMES-THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF LE MONDE........ 428 9.4 WHY THE FABLE OF
THE MECHANISTIC WORLD?.................................... 440
9.5 WORKING OUT THE FABLE: CHAPTERS 6-8 OF LE MONDE 442
9.5.1 COSMOGONY, MATTER-EXTENSION AND THE INTRODUCTION OF MOTION AND ITS
LAWS 442
9.5.2 THE LAWS OF
NATURE.......................................................... 444
9.5.3 VORTEX FORMATION, STABILITY PRINCIPLE AND [RE- ]INTRODUCTION OF
THE ELEMENTS 446
REFERENCES.. 450
10 WATERWORLD : DESCARTES VORTICAL CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND
COSMOLOGICAL OPTICS IN LE MONDE 453
10.1 INTRODUCTION: UNCOMMON
VORTICES................................................. 453
10.2 DESCARTES VORTICAL CELESTIAL MECHANICS IN LE
MONDE................... 455
10.2.1 CHARITABLE HERMENEUTICS-PRINCIPLES AND AIMS 455
10.2.2 SIZE AND SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS OF VORTEX CORPUSCLES AND THE ROLE OF
CENTRAL STARS 458
10.2.3 LOCKING AND EXTRUDING-UNPACKING THE TECHNICAL CORE OF THE VORTEX
CELESTIAL MECHANICS........................... 464
10.2.4 GENEALOGICAL AND SYSTEMATIC DIMENSIONS OF THE VORTEX CELESTIAL
MECHANICS 469
10.3 BEECKMAN S COSMIC BALANCING ACTS-THE LAST GENEALOGICAL STEP TO THE
VORTEX MECHANICS 471
10.4 DESCARTES CELESTIAL VORTEX MECHANICS AS A SCIENCE OFEQUILIBRIUM
475
10.5 APPLYING THE VORTEX MECHANICS TO LOCAL FALL, THE MOON AND THE
TIDES: AN EXERCISE IN CHARITABLE INTERPRETATION.. 478
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10.5.1 AIMS OF THIS SEETION AND THE STRATEGY OF READING 478
10.5.2 LOCAL FALL AS DOWNWARD EXTRUSION (IN ULTIMATE SEARCH FOR AN
ORBIT-LIKE THE MOON S) 479
10.5.3 VORTEX, EARTH, SEA AND MOON: DESCARTES THEORY OF THE TIDES 484
10.5.4 SUMMING UP THE VORTEX MECHANICS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON
CHARITABLE[L) READING 486
10.6 SOME INTRICACIES OF THE THEORIES OF LOCAL FALL AND THE MOON-BEARING
THE IMPRINT OF THE GENEALOGY OF PHYSICO- MATHEMATICS.... 486
10.6.1 THE INTRICACIES OF THE THEORY OF LOCAL FALL AND WEIGHT 487
10.6.2 SOME INTRICACIES OF DESCARTES MOON THEORY 495
10.7 COSMOLOGICAL THEORY OFLIGHT IN RELATION TO CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND
THE STYLE OF CARTESIAN PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS IN CORPUSCULAR- MECHANICAL
MODEL.. ..... .... ..... ..... .... ..... 499
10.7.1 REPRISING THE DYNAMICS AND LAWS OFNATURE 499
10.7.2 THE COSMOLOGICAL THEORY OF LIGHT AS TENDENCY TO MOTION
TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY THROUGH THE BOULES OF THE VORTEX 501
10.7.3 THE PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL STYLE AND PROTOCOLS AND THE CELESTIAL
OPTICS............................. 507
10.7.4 THE PHYSICO-MATHEMATICAL HYDROSTATICS OF 1619 AS PRECISE EXEMPLAR
FOR THE CELESTIAL OPTICS 509
10.8 MATCHING OF EVIDENCE: THE APPEARANCE OF CO METS IN RELATION TO THE
CELESTIAL MECHANICS, THE COSMOLOGICAL OPTICS AND THE STYLE OF CARTESIAN
PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS IN CORPUSCULAR-MECHANICAL
MODE.................................................. 515
10.9 LOOKING FORWARD: LE MONDE AS NATURAL PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM AND
GAMBIT 521
REFERENCES...... 522
11 LE MONDE AS A SYSTEM OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND GAMBIT IN THE
FIELD..........................................................................
525
11.1 LE MONDE AS COMPETITIVE GAMBIT IN THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHICAL FIELD.
525
11.2 LE MONDE AS A SYSTEM: CORE , HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL
DIMENSIONS AND SYSTEM-BINDING MOVES 527 11.2.1 HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS OF
THE SYSTEM IN LE MONDE 529
11.2.2 SYSTEM-BINDING MOVES ON THE HORIZONTAL PLANE.......... 532
11.2.3 THE VERTICAL DIMENSION OF SYSTEMATICITY 533
11.3 REMEDIATING PROBLEMS AND TAKING THE BEST STEPS FORWARD IN THE
PRINCIPIA 538
REFERENCES.. 540
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12 COSMOGRAPHY, REALIST COPERNICANISM AND SYSTEMATISING STRATEGY IN THE
PRINCIPIA
PHILOSOPHIAE................................................... 543
12.1 MORE THAN REMEDIATION: THE PRINCIPIA AS A TRIUMPH OF NOVEL AND
DARING SYSTEM-BINDING.......................................... 543
12.2 COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY AND COSMOGRAPHY: KEY CATEGORIES AND
INSIGHTS......................................................... 544
12.3 MATTER AND ELEMENT THEORY IN LE MONDE AND THE PRINCIPIA
PHILOSOPHIAE 549
12.4 INTER- VORTICAL PHENOMENA 557
12.5 CO-OPTING AND RE-FRAMING GILBERT S COSMIC MAGNETISM 558 12.6
CLAIMS ABOUT SUNSPOTS FROM GALILEO AND SCHEINER TO DESCARTES 561
12.7 GAINING STRATEGIE LEVERAGE: SUNSPOTS AS EXPLANANDA AND EXPLANANS IN
THE PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE 566
12.8 CLAIMED MATTERS OF FACT ABOUT NOVAE AND VARIABLE STARS BEFORE
DESCARTES 568
12.9 EXTENDING THE STRATEGY: SEIZING UPON NOVAE AND VARIABLE STARS IN
THE PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE 571
12.10 RAISING THE COSMOGRAPHICAL STAKES: GENEALOGY OF THE EARTH AND ALL
OTHER PLANETS IN ALL OTHER SYSTEMS 574
12.11 RADIEAL REALIST COPERNICANISM AND THE GRAND COSMOGRAPHIEAL
GAMBIT....................................... 576
12.12 CONCLUSION: COSMOGRAPHICAL SYSTEM AND STRATEGY IN THE PRINCIPIA,
THE CULMINATION OF DESCARTES NATURAL PHILOSOPHIEAL TRAJECTORY .. 582
REFERENCES.................................................................................................
586
13 CONCLUSION: THE YOUNG AND THE MATURE DESCARTESAGONISTES.............
589 13.1 CODA: DESCARTES YOUTHFUL STRUGGLES
RECONSIDERED.................. 589
13.2 EPILOGUE: THE MATURE, PUBLIC AND PUBLISHED DESCARTES AGONISTES ..
593
REFERENCES 600
APPENDIX 1: DESCARTES, MYDORGE AND BEECKMAN: THE EVOLUTION OF CARTESIAN
LENS THEORY 1627-1637....................................... 603
A.I INTRODUCTION 603
A.2 MYDORGE S REFRACTIVE INSTRUMENT: COSECANTS, NOT SINES 604
A.3 MYDORGE S SYNTHETIC PROPOSITIONS 3 AND 4 ON ANACLASTIC SURFACES: AN
ANTIQUE VERSION OFTHE SINE LAW............................ 605
A.4 RELATING MYDORGE S PROPOSITIONS 3 AND 4 TO DESCARTES ANALOGUES IN
THE DIOPTRIQUE: FROM ANTIQUE TO NATURAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SINES,
THANKS TO ISAAC BEECKMAN IN OCTOBER 1628..... 607
A.5 DECODING MYDORGE S PROPOSITION 5: THE COSECANT FORM LEADS TO THE
DISCOVERY OF THE ANTIQUE SINE FORM THEN USED SYNTHETICALLY IN
PROPOSITIONS 3 AND 4 610
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A.6 A RECONSTRUCTION OF DESCARTES AND MYDORGE S FIRST ANALYSIS OF THE
ANACLASTIC PROBLEM, WITH COSECANT LAW OF REFRACTION TO
HAND................................... 613
A.7 THE KRAMER-MILHAUD THESIS: DISCOVERING THE LAW OFREFRACTION BY
ANALYSIS OFTHE ANACLASTIC PROBLEM..................... 615
A.8 CONCLUSIONS 617
REFERENCES...... 619
APPENDIX 2: DECODING DESCARTES VORTEX CELESTIAL MECHANICS IN THE TEXT
OF LE MONDE 621
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| title | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 |
| title_auth | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 |
| title_exact_search | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 |
| title_full | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 John Schuster |
| title_fullStr | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 John Schuster |
| title_full_unstemmed | Descartes-Agonistes physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 John Schuster |
| title_short | Descartes-Agonistes |
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| title_sub | physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism 1618 - 33 |
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