HISTORY 60
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
Instructor: Dr. Barbara J. Becker
Week 6. Universal Reason
Reading D. Cartes
from the diary of Roger North,
a student at Cambridge University in the late 1660s
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The Regulæ
[
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
] (1628) by René Descartes (1596-1650);
On Gravity
, by Isaac Newton (1642-1727);
Philosophical Views of Isaac Newton
(1642-1727) from:
Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica
[
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
] (1689);
Opticks
(1704); and
A Debate on the Nature of Light and Color
: statements for and against Isaac Newton's theory of color.
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