magictransistor:René Descartes. Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam, Apud L. Elzevirium. 1644.D
magictransistor:René Descartes. Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam, Apud L. Elzevirium. 1644.Descartes’s Mechanical Philosophy: According to French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), the universe operated as a continuously running machine which God had set in motion. Since he rejected Newton’s theory of gravity and idea of a vacuum in space, Descartes argued that instead the universe was composed of a ‘subtle matter’ he named ‘plenum,’ which swirled in vortices like whirlpools and actually moved the planets by contact. Cartesio è veramente una delle più grandi pretenziose teste di cazzo della storia dell'umanità. -- source link
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