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  • |Author=Rene Descartes, ...ction of translated text and summaries of the correspondences between Rene Descartes and Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia between 1643 and 1649.
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  • |Last Name=Descartes ...e Sciences'' (''Discourse on Method''), first published in 1637,[[CiteRef::Descartes (2007)]] put forward a rationalist scientific methodology in which a propos
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  • ...e full title of Newton's work suggests he intended it to be in dialog with Descartes' ''Principia Philosophiae'' (''Principles of Philosophy'') published in 164 ...pushed things towards its centre. In accord with Copernican heliocentrism, Descartes posited that a larger vortex surrounded the sun, with the smaller planetary
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  • ...lis (2016)]][[CiteRef::Dunn (2003)]][[CiteRef::Fisher (2014)]] He accepted Descartes' corpuscular view of matter, his dualistic view that mind and matter were s ...to receive and manipulate them. [[CiteRef::Uzgalis (2016)]] Locke rejected Descartes contention that thinking was an inherent property of the mind. He wrote tha
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  • ...ve collection of the works of Robert Boyle(1627-1691), the works of [[Rene Descartes]] (1596-1650), and [[John Locke]]'s (1632-1704) ''Essay Concerning Human Un ...limitations of human reason, and the need to rely on Biblical revelation. Descartes instead claimed a human capacity to know God and nature through reason alon
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