Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV [This book analyses the concept of scientific explanation developed by French disciples of Descartes in the period 1660-1700] PDF
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NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE THOMAS J. BATA LI BRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY 4-- « ,TJ n < L.-V- _■ ■■ .. : ■. 'T-t ’ ' *■■ O■'JR ' ,•.:•■■ •■'. V-fi* «'.'‘-''5:'CTt''i*y^^ .1 OCCULT POWERS AND HYPOTHESES Occult Powers and Hypotheses Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV DESMOND M. CLARKE CLARENDON PRESS • OXFORD 1989 Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0x2 6dp Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jay a Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford IS a trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, New York © Desmond M. Clarke 1989 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Clarke, Desmond M. Occult powers and hypotheses: Cartesian natural philosophy under Louis XIV. I. Nature. Philosophical perspectives. Philosophy of nature. Trench theories. Cartesianism, history 1. Title 11 j'. 0944 ISBN 0-19-824812-1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Clarke, Desmond M. Occult powers and hypotheses. Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Science, Medieval—Philosophy. 2. Explanation (Philosophy) j. Descartes, Rene, 1^96-16^0—Influence. I. Title. Qiy4.8.Cf/ 1989 ^01 88-j 1260 ISBN 0-19-824812-1 Set by Hope Services, Abingdon Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd (juildford and King’s Lynn To Ernan McMullin Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.0rg/details/occultpowershypoOOOOclar
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