Introduction

problems of Descartes and the scientific revolution

1-29

Conceptual and historiographical foundations

natural philosophy, mixed mathematics, physico-mathematics, method

31-98

"Recalled to study"

Descartes, physico-mathematicus

99-166

Descartes opticien

the optical triumph of the 1620s

167-223

Analytical mathematics, universal mathematics and method

Descartes' identity and agenda entering the 1620s

225-264

Method and the problem of the historical Descartes

265-305

Universal mathematics interruptus

the program of the later regulaeand its collapse 1626–1628

307-348

Reinventing the identity and agenda

Descartes, physico-mathematical philosopher of nature 1629–1633

349-423

Reading le monde as pedagogy and fable

425-451

"waterworld"

Descartes' vortical celestial mechanics and cosmological optics in le monde

453-524

Le monde as a system of natural philosophy and gambit in the field

525-541

Cosmography, realist copernicanism and systematising strategy in the principia philosophiae

543-588

Conclusion

the young and the mature Descartes agonistes

Amy E. Varela

589-601