... Sister Maria Celeste René Descartes Virginia emblematic significance Reception of and reactions to Galileo's condemnation continue to this day. Although this process is obviously subject to chronological periodization and analytical subdivision, it is only at the end of our historical survey that we...

...This chapter examines René Descartes’ thoughts on space. Descartes aligns himself with Plato and Aristotle in their rejection of the Democritean void and in their common effort to make matter somehow coextensive with space. However, Descartes looks towards Locke and Leibniz in terms of a radical...