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17 On this question see M.Gueroult, ‘The Metaphysics and Physics of Force in
Descartes’, and A.Gabbey, ‘Force and Inertia in the Seventeenth Century:
Descartes and Newton’, both in [5.27], 196–229 and 230–320 respectively.
18 See, for example, his reply to Henry More’s objection that modes are not alienable
in [5.1], vol. 5, 403–4.
19 [5.1], vol. 7, 108; [5.5], vol. 2, 78.
20 See Wahl [5.73].
21 For details of this issue see Stephen Gaukroger, Explanatory Structures: Concepts
of Explanation in Early Physics and Philosophy (Brighton, Harvester, 1978), ch. 6.
22 For details see Jean-Paul Weber, La Constitution du texte des Regulae (Paris,
1964).
23 [5.1], vol. 10, 377–8; [5.5], vol. 1, 19.
24 See John Schuster, ‘Descartes’ Mathesis Universalis 1619–28’, in [5.27], 41–96.
25 [5.1], vol. 6, 63–5.
26 [5.1], vol. 1, 559–60.
27 [5.1], vol. 5, 325.
28 [5.1], vol. 6, 326–7.
29 [5.1], vol. 6, 336.
30 See the discussion in Beck [5.39], 176ff.
31 Rule 4, [5.1], vol. 10, 276–7; [5.1], vol. 5, 19.
32 [5.1], vol. 10, 455–6, 458.
33 On the authors whom Descartes would have studied at his college, La Flèche, see
Gilson [5.20]. On the textbook tradition more generally, see Patricia Reif, ‘The
Textbook Tradition in Natural Philosophy, 1600–1650’, Journal of the History of
Ideas 30 (1969) 17–32.
34 It is rare to find anyone who not only takes the deductive approach at face value
and also believes it is viable, but there is at least one notable example of such an
interpretation, namely Spinoza’s Principles of the Philosophy of René Descartes
(1663).
35 [5–1], vol. 6, 18–19; [5.5], vol. 1, 120.
36 See, for example, Leibniz’s letter to Gabriel Wagner of 1696, in C.I.Gerhardt (ed.)
Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Berlin, Weidman,
1875–90), vol. 7, 514–27, especially Comment 3 on p. 523. The letter is translated
in L.E.Loemker, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters
(Dordrecht, Reidel, 1969), pp. 462–71, with Comment 3 on p. 468.
37 Adrianus Turnebus (1512–65) was Royal Reader in Greek at the Collège de
France. He was one of the leading humanist translators of his day, and had an
extensive knowledge of Greek philosophy.
38 [5.1], vol. 10, 372; [5.5], vol. 1, 16.
39 [5.1], vol. 10, 387–8; [5.5], vol. 1, 25.
40 [5.1], vol. 10, 439–40; [5–5], vol. 1, 57.
41 M.Dummett, ‘The Justification of Deduction’, in his Truth and Other Enigmas
(London, Duckworth, 1978), p. 296.
42 On this influence see, specifically in the case of Locke, J.Passmore, ‘Descartes, the
British Empiricists and Formal Logic’, Philosophical Review 62 (1953), 545–53;
and more generally, W.S.Howell, Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric
(Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971).