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be displaced from the universities it was usually replaced by a version of
Cartesianism, although this enjoyed a relatively short reign before succumbing to
the incursions of Newtonianism. We may thus conveniently regard Descartes’s
work as representing the culmination of the first phase of the Scientific
Revolution.
NOTES
1 The Works of John Play fair, Esq…. with a Memoir of the Author (Edinburgh,
Archibald Constable, 1822), vol. 2. This was being completed at the time of his
death in 1819; cf. vol. 1, pp. lxi-lxii, vol. 2, pp. 3–4. For helpful comments on an
earlier draft of this chapter I am very grateful to Steven J.Livesey and Jamil Ragep.
2 W.Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time
(London, Parker, 3 vols, 3rd edn, 1857), vol. 1, p. 181.
3 cf.Ferguson [3.10], ch. 11.
4 cf. A.Koyré, Etudes d’Histoire de la Pensée Philosophique (Paris, Armand Colin,
1961), pp. 279–309.
5 Oxford English Dictionary, s.v.
6 But cf. J.Needham, The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West
(London, Allen & Unwin, 1969), pp. 276–85.
7 cf. N.W.Gilbert, ‘A Letter of Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologia to Fra’Guglielmo
Centueri; A Fourteenth-Century Episode in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the
Moderns’, Viator 8 (1977) 299–346.
8 See for example A. Keller, ‘A Renaissance Humanist Looks at “New” Inventions:
The Article “Horologium” in Giovanni Tortelli’s De Orthographia’, Technology
and Culture 11 (1970) 345–65.
9 Zilsel [3.56].
10 cf. K.R.Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Oxford,
Clarendon, 1972), ch. 3; Molland [3.51].
11 I.B.Thomas, Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics (London,
Heinemann, 1939), vol. 2, p. 31.
12 Descartes [3.36], vol. 10, p. 373.
13 Pappus of Alexandria, Book 7 of the Collection, ed. A.Jones (New York, Springer,
1986), p. 82.
14 See, for instance, R.Robinson, ‘Analysis in Greek Geometry’, in R.Robinson,
Essays in Greek Philosophy (Oxford, Clarendon, 1969), pp. 1–15; M.S. Mahoney,
‘Another Look at Greek Geometrical Analysis’, Archive for History of Exact
Sciences 5 (1968–9) 318–48; J.Hintikka and U.Remes, The Method of Analysis: Its
Geometrical Origin and General Significance (Dordrecht, Reidel, 1974).
15 Aubrey’s Brief Lives, ed. O.L.Dick (London, Seeker & Warburg, 1949), p. 130.
16 L.Prowe, Nicolaus Coppernicus (Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1883–4),
vol. 2, p. 185.
17 Copernicus [3.33], sig. iii.v.
18 Luther’s Worksy Volume 54: Table Talk, ed. and trans. Theodore G.Tappert
(Philadelphia, Penn., Fortress Press, 1967), p. 359.
19 Westman [3.72].