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N.1/2018 Studi cartesiani tra Europa e Brasile
La natura della materia e la spiegazione cartesiana dei fenomeni meteorologici
Paulo Tadeu da Silva
Universidade Federal do ABC – UFABC
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Published in June, 2018
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The nature of matter and the Cartesian explanation of metereological phenomena
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze some of the phenomena explained by Descartes in Meteors, one of the essays that accompanying the Discourse of the Method. More precisely, it is intended to discuss in what sense the exposition on the nature of matter – developed in the first discourse, entitled “On the nature of terrestrial bodies” – provides fundamental elements for the explanation of the phenomena considered in some of the following discourses.
Keywords
Natural Philosophy, Matter, Analogies, Mechanism, Metereological Phenomena
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