Vol. 6 no. 2

GOD AND THE ORDER OF NATURE IN EARLY MODERN THOUGHT:
TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND NATURAL SCIENCE

Invited editors: Grigore Vida and Laura Georgescu

Introduction

David Beck – Regional Natural History in England: Physico-Theology and the Exploration of Nature
Tobias Schöttler – From Causes to Relations: The Emergence of a Non-Aristotelian Concept of Geometrical Proof out of the Quaestio De Certitudine Mathematicarum
Steven Burgess – Resolving the Question of Doubt: Geometrical Demonstration in the Meditations
Tzuchien Tho – Equivocation in the Foundations of Leibniz’s Infinitesimal Fictions
Patrick Brissey – Descartes and the Meteorology of the World
Joseph Michael Anderson – Necessitarianism in Leibniz’s Confessio Philosophi

Book reviews

Lucian Petrescu – Fides et Ratio in the Renaissance
Sebastian Mateiescu – Science and Religion and the Myth of their Conflict
Mihai-Dragos Vadana – Pathways in Cartesian Philosophy

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