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Descartes’ Physics

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[Revised entry by Edward Slowik on October 15, 2021.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
While Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) is well-known as one of the founders of modern philosophy, his influential role in the development of modern physics has been, until the later half of the twentieth century, generally under-appreciated and under-investigated by both historians and philosophers of science. Not only did Descartes provide the first distinctly modern formulation of laws of nature and a conservation principle of motion, but he also constructed what would become the most popular theory of planetary motion of the late…

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