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Rene Descartes: Principles of Philosophy - Translated, with Explanatory Notes (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
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Rene Descartes: Principles of Philosophy - Translated, with Explanatory Notes (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 24
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Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most
ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to
actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as
he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this
attempt, there can be no doubt that it was enormously influential.
Cartesian celestial mechanics held sway for well over a century,
and some of the best minds of that period, including Leibniz,
Malebranche, Euler, and the Bernoullis, attempted to modify and
quantify the Cartesian theory of vortices into an acceptable
alternative to Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Thus, the
Principles is not only of inherent and historical interest
philosophically but is also a seminal document in the history of
science and of 17th Century thought. Principles of Philosophy was
first published in Latin, in 1644. In 1647, a French translation,
done by the Abbe Claude Picot and containing a great deal of
additional material and a number of alterations in the original
text, was published with Descartes's enthusiastic approval. Unlike
some English translations of portions of the Principles, this
translation uses the Latin text as its primary source; however, a
good deal of additional material from Picot's translation has been
included. There are several reasons for this. First, there is good
evidence that Descartes himself was responsible for some of the
additional material, including, of course, the Preface to the
French translation.
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