HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope

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HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes. 

HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

Antoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century. 

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