The Role of Hypotheses in Descartes's and Buffon's Theories of the Earth

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors' Introduction 1
4. Adrien Baillet and the Genesis of his Vie de M. Des-Cartes 9
5. Cartesianism and Biblical Criticism 61
6. Boyle, Jurieu, and the Politics of Philosophy: A Reply to Professor Popkin 83
7. The Cartesian Model and its Role in Eighteenth-Century "Theory of the Earth" 95
8. The Role of Hypotheses in Descartes's and Buffon's Theories of the Earth 113
9. Transubstantiation among the Cartesians 127
10. Transubstantiation: Test Case for Descartes's Theory of Space 149
11. Philosophia Cartesiana Triumphata: Henry More (1646–1671) 171
12. Index 251