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Íàçâàíèå: Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
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Àííîòàöèÿ: René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.
But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes’s death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and by common consent the greatest mathematician in history, moved to Paris in search of this notebook–and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes’s. Liebniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages–which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Liebniz’s hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes’s notebook.
Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions will lead the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.
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Ïðåäìåòíûé óêàçàòåëü
Jonquieres, Ernest de 220
Judaism 47 48 50 75—76 91
Jupiter 16 75 121
Jupiter, Faulhaber's symbol for 75
Kabbalah 47 48 50 75—76 108 110 111
Kanones pueriles 111
Kepler, Johann 61—63 74 80 89 104 105—106 110—111 112 217 222—225 235 238 241 247n
Kepler, Johann, model of the universe 224
Kuehn, Johann 208
La Fleche college 26 27—34 35 57 64 129 154 178
La Haye 17—22 29 123 169 200
La Menaudiere 122—123
La Rochelle siege 125—130 251n
Landes, Richard 7
Latin Language 41 42 43 46 60 79 84 S6 135 151 158 168 169 179 202 207—208 213 215
Legrand, Jean-Baptiste 203—204 230 243n
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 206—235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, alchemy as interest of 210
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, background of 206—212
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, calculus discovered by 2 10 67 232—235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, death of 219 235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Descartes' influence on 208—213 230—235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Descartes' manuscript copied by 2 10—16 15 56 60 75 106 109 148 203 212—221 214 219 226 229 230—233 243n—244n 256n
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, equal sign used by 121
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, patron of 12 173 211 212 231 235
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Rosicrucian influence on 13 212—213
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, writings of 210 219
Length 70—71
Libavius, Andreas 102
Lines, angles formed by 44—45 45
Lines, drawing of 31 69 69
Lines, parallel 70
Lines, perpendicular 70 163
Lines, straight 31 45
Lipstorp, Daniel 72 203
Logic 6 155
Loreto, shrine of 60 115
Louis XIII, King of France 125—130 137
Louis XIV, King of France 210 211 229
Lull, Ramon 47—48 209—210
Luther, Martin 49
Lutherans 49 88 198
Macedo, Antonio 205
magic 50—51 84—87 91 102 159—160
Maire, Jean 151
Malehranche, Nicolas 231—232
Mallet, C 220
Manders, Kenneth L. 106
Maria Eleanora of Brandenburg 183
Maritain, Jacques 107—108
Mathematics advances in 5 31 69—71 100 160
Mathematics advances in, Descartes' contributions to 24 30—32 37 39 40 41—43 46—47 53 64 96 113 127 131 133 139 140 155—156 160 168—169 170 218—219
Mathematics advances in, Greek approach to 62 218 220—221 232
Mathematics advances in, logical basis of 6 155—156
Mathematics advances in, music and 6 37 47 81 132 135
Mathematics advances in, mysticism and 47—48 62—63 71 74—77 85 109—112 215 217 218—219
Mathematics advances in, proof in 139 154—157 164—166
Mathematics advances in, pure 46—47 64 136 140 160
Mathematics advances in, puzzles in 41—46
Mathematics advances in, teaching of 30—32
Mathematics advances in, unification of 45—46 58—59 71 79
Maurice of Nassau, prince of Orange 39 41—42 46 48—49 51 54 129 168
Maximilian, duke of Bavaria 51 53—54 77—79 97 108
Medicine 24 25—26 89 91 148 193—197 198
Meditations (Descartes) 5 175 182
Mehl, Edouard 73 100 105 109—110
Mersenne, Marin 8 28 36 98—100 113 133 134—137 139—144 181 195
Metaphysics 6 136—137 139 151 168 170—171 231
Meteores (Descartes) 150 153—154
Microwave radiation 238—239
Minim Brothers 36 98—100 133
Miracula ariihmetica (Faulhaber) 72—73 109—110
Moebius strip 256n
Moegling, Daniel 109—110
Momentum 138 139
Monde, Le (Descartes) 136—144 145 152 153—154 157
Monsieur Grat (Descartes' dog) 148
Morin, Jean-Baptiste 175
Moses 91
Motion 61 62 104 112 136 139
MUSIC 6 37 47 81 132 135
Mydorge, Claude 36
Mysterium cosmographicum (Kepler) 62 223 224 247n
Mysticism 39 47—48 62—63 71 74—77 82—91 102 109—112 159—160 166 215 217 218—219
Newton, Isaac 10 67 232—235
Niceron, Jean-Francois 99
Numbers, biblical 76 107 109 110 111 215 219
Numbers, combinations of 207 209—212 214
Numbers, cube roots of 165 166
Numbers, factoring of 207
Numbers, fields of 164—165
Numbers, inverses of 164
Numbers, irrational 88
Numbers, natural 39 74 120 164
Numbers, prime 207 215
Numbers, rational 120 164—165
Numbers, sequences of 38 220 225—228 256n
Numbers, square roots of 164—166
Numerus figuratus sive arithmetica arte mirabili inaudita nova constans (Faulhaber) 109
Octahedrons 214—215 215 216 216 218 225 227 239 240
Olympica (Descartes) 13—14 56 57 60 61 62 79 100—101 202 213
Ontario blizzard (2002) 2—4
Optics 5 62 99 132 140 141 150
Oxenstierna, Axel 183
Papacy 49 114—115 142
Paris 7—9 34—39 73 80 96—98 113 116 122 123 124 125 129 131 132 171—172 180 243n
Parliament of Brittany 18 21 25 244n
Parnassus (Descartes) 202
Pasachoff, Jay M. 237—238
Pascal, Blaise 8
Passions de fame (Descartes) 174
Peace of Westphalia (1648) 54 55 183—184 189 206
Penrose, Roger 236
Pentagons 217
Pericles 66
Perpetuum mobile (Mogling) 111
Philipp of Hesse — Butzbach 108
Philosophy, "vitalist" 103
Philosophy, Cartesian 5—6 95 96 114—115 124 125 133 140 151—157 168 170 173 174—179 208—209 213—214 218—219 229—230
Philosophy, mysticism and 87—89 102
Philosophy, natural 151 154 157
Philosophy, rationalist 5—6 59—60 92 97—98 139 151—152 174—179 213—214
Philosophy, scholastic 30 97—98 152 153 155 158 175 208
Physics, Descartes' contributions to 5 6 24 136—144 153 157
Physics, experimental 37 85 88 137 139 175
Physics, laws of 127—128 130 132 136—144 151 157
Physics, theoretical 134—136 137 139
Picot, Abbe 171—172
Planes 69 165 166
Planetary motion 61 62 104 112 136 139 222
Plato 66—67 91 183 217 218
Platonic solids 215—219 218 221 222—228 237—241 240—241
POINTS 44—45 69
Poitiers 21 34 245n
Poitou 17 19—20 24 25 38 42 95—97 113 122 125 130
Poland 52 93 205
Pollot, Alphonse 169
Polybius the Cosmopolitan (Descartes'Pseudonym) 13 14 73—74
Polyhedrons 217 224—225 256n
Prague 50 51 77—79 102 167
Preambles (Descartes) 1—2 12 13 38—39 60 73 202 212—213
Principes de philosophic (Descartes) 174 184
Printing 99 132 136 137
Protestants 6 20—21 27 33 39 49—50 51 77 78 89 125—130 132—133 176 188—189 192 197—199 204—205 211 251n
Prouhet, E. 220
Proust, Jeanne (Jehanne) 21
Provincial, Armand 33
Ptolemy of Alexandria 104
Pyramids 214—215 215 216 216 227 228
Pythagoras 30 59 68 88 162 215
Pythagorean Theorem 88 162—163 215
Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim (Mersenne) 99
Quarrel of Utrecht 171 174—179 180 183 194
Rapin, Pere 99
Ravaillac, Francois 33
Recherche de la verite (Malebranche) 231
Recorde, Michel 121
Rectangles 162
Regius (Henri le Roy) 177
Regulae (Descartes) 209
Regular solids 215—219 221 222—228 237—241 240
Relativity, theory of 236
Rennes 18 23 38 39 95 96 113 115—116 122 172 244n
Richelieu, Cardinal 125—130
Rodis — Lewis, Genevieve 25 79
Roman Empire 90 116 129
Rome 49 90 99 115 205
Rosarium novum olympicum 102
Rosay, Mme. de 123—125
Rosenkreu2, Christian 84—86 90 105
Rosicrucians 13 50—51 74 77 82—91 84 92 97—98 100 101—112 113 121 132 159—160 177—178 212—213 215 248n
Roth, Peter 77 108
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 50 51
Rules (Descartes) 152
Russell, Bertrand 208
Ryer, Dr. du 193—194
Saint Francis of Paola 36
Saint George's Chapel 21
Saint Martin's Eve 56—57 129
Saint Paul 176—177
Saint-Germain-des-Pres church 7 8—9 37 199 200
Scheiner, Christoph 142
Schluter, Henry 188 195 197 201 202
Schoock, Martin 178—179
Science, "admirable" 13—14 61 63 79 101—102 109 112
Science, "curious" 159—160
Science, Descartes' contributions to 2 13 38—39 40 61 63 83 89—90 125 170
Science, methodology of 84—91 151—156 174—179
Science, mysticism and 39 82—91 159—160
Science, religion opposed to 87—88 98—100 175 176 229
Science, social influence of 85 86—89 102—103
Science, truth in 59 82—83 89
Science, universal 38—39 58—59 83 105 140 152
Secret notebook see De solidorum elementis (Descartes)
Sefirot 48
Selected Works of Descartes (Descartes) 200
Sergeant, Thomas 145
Solar system 104 130 136 138 153 175 222 223 237—238
Sophie, Princess of Bohemia 173 231
Space, infinite 157 238—239
Space, properties of 228 236—237
Space, three-dimensional 166 223 224—229 239—241 256n 111
Spain 33 39 49 50 51 85 95
Sparre, Erik 201
Speculum sophicum (Moegling) 111
Spheres 217 223
Square roots 164—165
squares 162—163
Stoics 183
Straightedges 30—32 31 64 66 67 68 107 162—166 215
Sun 115 142 236
Supernovas 104
Sweden 10—11 22 29 49 60 132 171 172 179 182—197 206
Tannery, Paul 202 204 220 243n
Tartaglia (Niccolo Fontana) 117—120 250n
Tetrahedrons 216 216 218 225 227 239
Theon of Smyrna 66—67
Thesarius mathematicus (Descartes) 73
Thesaurinella olympica aurea tripartita 102
Thirty Years War 6 54 55 183—184 189 206
topology 227—230 231
Touraine 18—20 22 25 28 38 42 95 122—125 187 192 200
Trajectories 130 136
Triangles as geometric figures 45 215 217
Triangles, perfect 157
Triangles, right 165—166 215
Tronchet, Mine, du 146
Truth, absolute 59 143 151—152
Truth, doubt and 154—155 157
Truth, mathematical 139 154—157 164—166
Truth, search for 59 60 82—83 89 92 124 125 151—152 155
Truth, transcendent 224—225
Ulm 63 72 74 76—77 106 108 111
Universe, theory of; see cosmology Utrecht 171 174—179 180 183 194
Vanini, Lucilio 176
Varaut, Jean-Marc 197
Variables 4 121
Venice 73 114—115 116 117—118 120 130
Venus, transit of 237—238
Vertices 225—228
Viogue, Father 197 201
Virgil 30 52
Virlorieux, Anne de 180
Voetius, Gisbert 147 176—179 202
Volume 66—69
War, art of 39—40 74 125—130
Wars of Religion 49
Weeks, Jeffrey 239
Weulles, Dr. 194—197 198
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 238—239
Wladyslaw IV, King of Poland 173
Yates, Frances 102—103
Zeno of Elea 185
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