Henry More and René Descartes
The Correspondence Between the Cambridge Platonist and the Corpuscular Philosopher and Its Influence on the Young Isaac Newton
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Henry More, René Descartes, metaphysics, philosophy of nature, Isaac NewtonAbstract
In the article, the author presents the circumstances that stimulated the correspondence between the Cambridge Platonist Henry More and the corpuscular philosopher René Descartes. More’s questions concern many of the key issues in Descartes’ philosophy and can be seen as the last set of objections that Descartes received regarding his philosophy. More addresses the entire field of philosophy, i.e., metaphysics, physics and logic, and he also opens up many problems in the field of optics and meteorology. The author summarizes these issues and concludes the article by noting the influence that correspondence had on the young Isaac Newton and his manuscript De gravitatione.
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