In article <3e127e34$0$79557$8eec23a at newsreader.tycho.net>,
Richard Steven Walz <rstevew at deeptht.armory.com> wrote:
< Skipped a generally excellent and accurate riposte>
>In article <6dd87c5d.0212311648.1c61ed2a at posting.google.com>,
>geakazoid <azedia at dolfina.org> wrote:
>>Descartes, was explaining the the Role of the Scientist was to
>>discover the operative forces of God's Creation. Thus, Science was
>>originated to become closer or to commune with the Creator not to
>>Replace the Creator. The Catholic Church lator sanctified Science when
>>it realized that it could no longer suppress it.
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>Descartes was a mathematician, NOT a Scientist.
Sorry, I have a nit to pick here. The famous :
"Discours de la m'ethode" was an introduction to a work about
optics, it was about the method he used in his scientific work.
Actually it is a reprint of a part that turned out very influential.
I rather would claim that Descartes couldn't have contributed so much
to philosophy, if it weren't for his scientific work.
Further, every good scientist is a mathematician to an extent.
Certainly in Descartes time a scientist had to invent not
only experimental tools, but also mathematical ones.
(And even philosophical ones.)
Nobody thinks of Newton are Maxwell as mathematicians but
their contributions to mathematics were substantial.
Only in Einsteins time mathematics became so technical that
Einstein left a lot of the work to his wife. Still Einstein
contributed to mathematics.
Groetjes Albert
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