Os meteoros e primeiro confronto com a tradição

Meteors and first confrontation with tradition

Authors

  • Paulo Tadeu da Silva

Abstract

The meteors can be taken as the first confrontation of Descartes with the natural philosophy of the scholastics. The fact that this first confrontation is done in the field of meteorology is quite significant. In fact, meteorology was a traditional discipline, both in virtue of the treatise written by Aristotle and many other treatises published during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. My presentation aims to present an overview of the composition process of this essay, the main epistemological and methodological aspects involved with the Cartesian explanation of meteorological phenomena, and finally the reception of this text by Descartes’ contemporaries.

Published

2020-03-18

How to Cite

da Silva, P. T. (2020). Os meteoros e primeiro confronto com a tradição: Meteors and first confrontation with tradition. Modernos & Contemporâneos - International Journal of Philosophy [issn 2595-1211], 3(7). Retrieved from https://ojs.ifch.unicamp.br/index.php/modernoscontemporaneos/article/view/4064