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Reworking Descartes’ mathesis universalis

John Schuster: Descartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism 1618-33. (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 27.) Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, xix+631pp, $179.00/€142.79/£122.00 HB

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Dijksterhuis, F.J. Reworking Descartes’ mathesis universalis . Metascience 23, 613–618 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9904-9

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