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Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique, de Copernic à Descartes (2019-05-29)

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La théologie au coeur de la cosmologie cartésienne« Descartes ne qualifie sa cosmologie que sous le modeste diminutif d’une “fable du monde”. Ceci peut s’interpréter comme l’aveu d’une impuissance de la raison à atteindre l’authentique fabrique du monde. Mais avant d’être une fiction dénuée de toute vérité, une fable est d’abord un récit, comme celui que l’Écriture propose au premier livre de la Genèse. Nous enquêtons ici sur le commentaire cartésien de la Genèse, texte perdu, mais suffisamment avancé pour que Descartes envisageât, en 1640, de le soumettre à l’approbation de la Sorbonne. Qu’y aurait-il montré? Qu’en concevant le mouvement comme une séparation réciproque des parties de l’étendue, il se conformait à la lettre au récit mosaïque de la création. Descartes s’appuie sur une lecture précise de la Genèse, mais une lecture si originale et si peu orthodoxe qu’il doit presque aussitôt renoncer à en faire une caution pour sa philosophie naturelle. Nous enquêtons donc moins sur cet In Genesim, que sur les raisons de sa disparition. » English translation from Google Translate: Theology at the heart of Cartesian cosmology "Descartes qualifies his cosmology only under the modest diminutive of a" fable of the world ". This can be interpreted as the admission of the powerlessness of reason to reach the authentic fabric of the world. But before being a fiction devoid of all truth, a fable is first of all a story, like that which Scripture offers in the first book of Genesis. We are investigating here the Cartesian commentary on Genesis, a lost text, but sufficiently advanced for Descartes to consider, in 1640, submitting it for the approval of the Sorbonne. What would it have shown? That by conceiving of movement as a reciprocal separation of parts of expanse, he was literally conforming to the Mosaic account of creation. Descartes relies on a precise reading of Genesis, but a reading so original and so unorthodox that he almost immediately has to give up making it a guarantee for his natural philosophy. We are therefore investigating less on this In Genesim than on the reasons for its disappearance. "

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Review Ivan Malara (2020) Review of "Descartes et la fabrique du monde: Le problème cosmologique, de Copernic à Descartes". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 578-579). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Laetitia Rimpau
Phillips, Philip E.
Li, Mo
Bienias, Barbara
Guidi, Simone
Bujor, Ioana
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