Jacques Rohault
French philosopher
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treatise on Cartesian physics
- In Cartesianism: Cartesian mechanism
Although the Treatise (1671) of Jacques Rohault, a leading expositor of Cartesian physics, was translated into English in 1723 by Newton’s disciple Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) and Clarke’s brother, their corrections and annotations turned the work into an exposition of Newtonian physics. Nevertheless, this progress would have pleased Descartes, who said…
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