Article ID: CBB000954427

The Development of Mersenne's Optics (2010)

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Cozzoli, Danielle (Author)


Perspectives on Science
Volume: 18
Pages: 9--25
Publication date: 2010
Language: English


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Special Issue on Marin Mersenne

This paper reconstructs the development of Mersenne's reflections concerning optics. I argue that Mersenne's optical writings provide crucial insights into Mersenne's Aristotelianism. I reconstruct Mersenne's attempt of explaining the new ideas on light, which were advanced by Kepler, Descartes and Hobbes within Aristotle's natural philosophy. Mersenne explained Kepler's work on light within the Scholastic tradition. In the 1640s, Mersenne was stimulated by the debate concerning Descartes' theory of light, which he accepted only in 1648. Indeed, Mersenne first explained Descartes' law of refraction by means of Hobbes physics. However, Mersenne always wanted to remain faithful to Aristotle.

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Authors & Contributors
Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan
Baldin, Gregorio
Bellé, Riccardo
Cirino, Raffaele
Darrigol, Olivier
Demetera, Tamás
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry
Publishers
Edwin Mellen Press
Fabrizio Serra Editore
Oxford University Press
University of Chicago Press
World Scientific
Guida Editori
Concepts
Light
Optics
Physics
Controversies and disputes
Mathematics
Philosophy
People
Newton, Isaac
Descartes, René
Kepler, Johannes
Aguillon, François d'
Albertus Magnus
al-Farisi, Kamal al-Din
Time Periods
17th century
Ancient
Medieval
18th century
19th century
16th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Europe
Italy
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