Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV

by Desmond M. Clarke

This book analyses the concept of scientific explanation developed by French disciples of Descartes in the period 1660-1700. Clarke examines the views of authors such as Malebranche and Rohault, as well as those of less well-known authors such as Cordemoy, Gadroys, Poisson and R gis. These Cartesian natural philosophers developed an understanding of scientific explanation as necessarily hypothetical, and, while they contributed little to new scientific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198248121
• ISBN13: 9780198248125
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"