The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in descartes’ natural philosophy

Descartes' Natural Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 60-80

  Gaukroger, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 85071116322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203463017-9     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. Alan Gabbey, ‘Force and inertia in the Seventeenth Century: Descartes and Newton,’ in S. Gaukroger, ed., Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics (Brighton, 1980), 267 ff.
2. Leonhard Euler, Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum (1765)
3. Mary Hesse, Forces and Fields (London, 1961), 207.