https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/ Recent content in Cartesian-Spinoza Cosmology on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/intro/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/intro/ <p>What follows from the most universal principles of natural things?</p> <!-- we must now go on to explain what follows from them. However, because the things that follow from these principles exceed all that our mind can ever survey in thought, and because we are not determined by them to consider some in particular rather than others, we should first of all present a brief account of the most important phenomena whose causes we shall here be investigating. But this you have in Arts. --> <!-- 5-1 5 Part 3 of the Principia. --> <p>Articles 20-43 explain the hypothesis that Descartes used to:</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/axioms/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/axioms/ <p>Postulate: The following should be taken for granted.</p> <p>All the matter of which this visible world is composed was in the beginning divided by God into particles as near as possible equal to one another.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/prop-01/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/spinoza/cartesian/part-3/prop-01/ <h2 id="proposition-1-the-parts-into-which-matter-was-first-divided-were-not-round-but-angular">Proposition 1: The parts into which matter was first divided were not round but angular.</h2> <!-- Appendix Containing Metaphysical Thoughts, Part I, Chapter I 177 --> <p>Proof: All matter was in the beginning divided into equal and similar parts (Postulate).</p>