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Descartes Develops Vortex Account Of Heavens

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Descartes Develops Vortex Account Of Heavens

Descartes, Rene · Philosopher

Descartes presented a cosmology in which circulating matter accounts for celestial movements. Though later displaced, the vortex theory influenced seventeenth century scientific debate.

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