Re: [HM] Mathesis Universalis

Piers Bursill-Hall (P.Bursill-Hall@dpmms.cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:29:25 +0000

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Come to think of it, another good source on the Cartesian idea of m.u. is in
Sasaki: Descartes' Mathematical Thought,
and
S. Gaukroger's Descartes, an Intellectual Biography pp.100-103
has a very cogent discussion of Cartesian m.u. and its origins (possibly
Aristotle, Proculus, or Romanus).
I don't have it to hand, but I'll wager that Bill Shea's bio of Descartes,
W. Shea: The Magic of Numbers and Motion
will also have a discussion (no doubt based on Sasaki and Crapulli).

Piers Bursill-Hall
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1SB

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