Cartesian Meteors and Scholastic Meteors: Descartes against the School in 1637

Journal of the History of Ideas 76 (1):25-45 (2015)
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This essay presents Descartes’s anti-hylomorphism in The Meteors published in 1637 and in the unpublished works that precede it, The World (Treatise on Light) and the Rules for the Direction of the Mind.

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10.1353/jhi.2015.0005

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Lucian Petrescu
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