Article ID: CBB000773899

Sur une lettre de Descartes à Schooten: Qu'on dit de 1639 (2006)

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On a Letter From Descartes to Schooten Supposed to be From 1639 The aim of this paper is to suggest a new dating for a letter of Descartes to Schooten, alleged by Adam-Tannery to date from September of 1639. In this letter, Descartes answers questions dealing with Schooten's preparation of the 1649 Latin edition of La Géométrie, which concerns Descartes' solution of Pappus' problem. We propose to date this letter nearly a decade later, to March-April of 1648, by comparing on the one hand some letters of Descartes' correspondence and by using on the other a speculative argument based on the controversy between Descartes and Roberval over Pappus' problem.

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Description “In this letter, Descartes answers questions dealing with Schooten's preparation of the 1649 Latin edition of La Géométrie, which concerns Descartes' solution of Pappus' problem.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Hyslop, Scott J.
Grosslight, Justin
Helbert E. Velilla-Jiménez
Rossini, Paolo
Palomo, Miguel
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Mathematics
Controversies and disputes
Republic of Letters
Scientific priority
Mathematicians
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, early
16th century
Places
France
Europe
Great Britain
Netherlands
Sweden
Germany
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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