Descartes’s Geology, or How to Access the Earth’s Past Through Reason
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This study aims to recover the significance of Cartesian thought for the History of Geology. To this end, Descartes’s thesis is examined from two perspectives: the emergence of a new way of interpreting the planet—referred to as the Terraqueous Globe—and the Cartesian Natural Philosophy within the broader context of seventeenth‑century mechanism. The analysis shows that Descartes presents a coherent theory, transforming the Terraqueous Globe into an object of scientific inquiry by interpreting it mechanically and attributing to it a past accessible to reason. Such a proposal did not go unnoticed by his contemporaries and was able to influence philosophers and naturalists in the decades that followed.
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Alexandre Henrique da Silva dos Santos
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