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Tag: seventeenth-century

Pages tagged with seventeenth-century.

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• Blaise Pascal

  French mathematician, physicist, religious thinker, and writer (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662). Author of the Pensées (posthumous; compositional fragments 1657–62), the Provincial Letters (1656–57), De l'esprit géométrique (c. 1657), works…

• Galileo Galilei

  Italian physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (1564–1642). In this wiki Galileo appears almost entirely through Husserl's Crisis §9, where he is the protagonist of the mathematization of nature — and the emblem of Husserl's most influen…

• René Descartes

  French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650). Already pervasive in this wiki as a topic (the cogito, the Cartesian way that Merleau-Ponty and Husserl both contest; "Descartes as a cultural institution … singular like a tone, a style, o…