{"id":817,"date":"2013-01-22T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?page_id=817"},"modified":"2013-01-22T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:50:13","slug":"nausicaa-milani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?page_id=817","title":{"rendered":"Nausicaa Milani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Empirical Interpretation of French Cartesianism: The Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, the Journal des S\u00e7avans, and the Relationship with the Royal Society<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?page_id=189#Intellectual-Geography\">Intellectual Geography<\/a> \/ Wednesday 7 September, 2011<\/h2>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"vimeo\" id=\"arve-vimeo-35261766\" style=\"max-width:625px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:5\/4\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:80.000000%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-vimeo-35261766\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35261766?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963&amp;transparent=0&amp;title=1&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35261766?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963&#038;transparent=0&#038;title=1&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"625\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\\\/?page_id=817#arve-vimeo-35261766\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/player.vimeo.com\\\/video\\\/35261766?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Syst\u00e8me de philosophie<\/em> (1691) by Pierre Sylvain R\u00e9gis can be considered as the achievement both of the scientific liveliness of the <em>Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences<\/em> in the seventeenth century and of its fruitful relationship with the Royal Society. Since it aims to shape the new conception of the universe in terms of a system, the Syst\u00e8me represents one of the most mature achievements of Cartesian philosophy and it is characterized by an empirical interpretation of Descartes\u2019s thought. The Syst\u00e8me therefore reflects two important phenomena occurring in the Europe of the seventeenth century: the scientific revolution and the proliferation of Academies. In fact, this ambitious work could be undertaken with the support of the <em>Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences<\/em> and the <em>Journal des S\u00e7avants<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My paper will analyse the French context by focusing to outline the role which the <em>Acad\u00e9mie de France<\/em> had both in France, as the medium of dissemination of the new philosophy despite censorship, and abroad, in particular through the relationship with the Royal Society in England. I aim to analyse the role of the <em>Journal des S\u00e7avants<\/em> as a means to share ideas other than by correspondence and as a <em>trait d\u2019union<\/em> between \u2018rationalist France\u2019 and \u2018empiricist England\u2019. I intend to question whether it is possible to establish a connection between the empirical interpretation of French Cartesianism, the consolidation of the <em>Acad\u00e9mie de France<\/em> and the employment of new means of academic communication. The paper will show that the second half of seventeenth-century France represents a remarkable exception to the conventional picture, which states that in seventeenth-century Europe, following the success of a mechanistic interpretation of reality, two philosophical schools clashed: rationalism, predominating on the continent, and empiricism, in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empirical Interpretation of French Cartesianism: The Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, the Journal des S\u00e7avans, and the Relationship with the Royal Society Intellectual Geography \/ Wednesday 7 September, 2011 The Syst\u00e8me de philosophie (1691) by Pierre Sylvain R\u00e9gis can be considered as the achievement both of the scientific liveliness of the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}