The World - Treatise On Light

Traité du monde et de la lumière by René Descartes (1596–1650) was written between 1629 and 1633.

Our Sensations and the Things That Produce Them

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The Nature of Heat and Light

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Hardness and Liquidity

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The Void--Why are we not Aware of Certain Bodies?

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The Aethereal Elements and Their Qualities

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The Aethereal Universe

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The Three Rules of Nature of the Aethereal Universe

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Rule 3: Angular Momentum

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The Formation of the Sun and the Stars

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The Birth of Electromagnetism from Spacetime

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The Origin of Matter: Comets and the Oort Cloud

The Origin of Matter: Comets and the Oort Cloud

The Origin of the Planets and Comets

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The Planets the Earth and Moon

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How are the Orbits of the Moons Formed?

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What Gives Objects Their Weight?

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The Balance Between the Aethers

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The Ebb and Flow of the Sea

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Cartesian Inertia and Gravitation

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Solar Wind and Black Holes

Solar Wind and Black Holes

Supermassive Black Holes as Galactic Vortices

Supermassive Black Holes as Galactic Vortices

The Properties of Light

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The Aether and Gravitational Lensing

The Aether and Gravitational Lensing

Comets

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Footnotes

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