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27Theory of Comets at Paris During the Seventeenth CenturyJournal of the History of Ideas 53 (3): 355-372. 1992.
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198Descartes and the tree of knowledgeSynthese 92 (1). 1992.Descartes' image of the tree of knowledge from the preface to the French edition of the Principles of Philosophy is usually taken to represent Descartes' break with the past and with the fragmentation of knowledge of the schools. But if Descartes' tree of knowledge is analyzed in its proper context, another interpretation emerges. A series of contrasts with other classifications of knowledge from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries raises some puzzles: claims of originality and radical brea…Read more
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