Cartesian Images: Mechanical–Physics

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The next session of Cartesian Images: Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age seminar series (KULeuven) will be centered on “Mechanical-Physics”. Chair: Sietske Fransen

17:00  David Rabouin, The Role of Imagination in Descartes’ Geometry

17:30  Jip van Besouw, Breaking with Balance, or Why Descartes Required Such a Complicated Diagram for the Lever

18:00  Carla Rita Palmerino,“Ils se trompaient d’ailleurs tous deux”: Galileo’s and Descartes’ Representations of Ebb and Flow

18:30 Discussion

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00–20:00 CET

Source: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/events/agenda/cartesian-images

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