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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2003

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048164875

Full citation:

Chikara Sasaki, Descartes's mathematical thought, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Descartes's mathematical thought

Chikara Sasaki

Contents

Introduction

1-9

Descartes and jesuit mathematical education

13-44

The mathematical thought of Christoph Clavius

45-93

The first attempt at reforming mathematics

95-157

The mathematical background of the regulae ad directionem ingenii

159-203

The géométrie of 1637

205-280

Interim consideration

281-285

"Universal mathematics" in Aristotle

289-331

"Mathesis universalis" in the sixteenth century

333-358

"Mathesis universalis" in the seventeenth century

359-418

Conclusion

Amy E. Varela

419-438