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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Francisco Suárez's influential Disputationes metaphysicae
(1597) contains an extended presentation and discussion of
the scholastic doctrine of fourfold causation. See Disputa-
tions XII-XXXIII, in Vol. II, 323ff., and Vol. III of the recent
Latin and Spanish edition (Madrid, 1960-64). The interest-
ing and revealing controversy between Descartes and More
is to be found in Vol. VIII, 90-107, 121-39, 154-85, 204-17,
240-52, and 261-67 of Descartes: Correspondance, edited
by Charles Adam and Gérard Milhaud (Paris, 1963). New-
ton's anti-Cartesian tract “De gravitatione et aequipondio
fluidorum” was published by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas
Hall in Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton (Cam-
bridge, 1962), pp. 89ff. The following books and articles,
representing a very small part of the literature, have been
particularly useful: Yvon Belaval, Leibniz, critique de Des-
cartes
(Paris, 1960); M. H. Carteron, “L'Idée de force
mécanique dans le système de Descartes,” Revue philos-
ophique de la France et de l'étranger,
94 (1922), 243-77,
483-511; R. W. Church, “Malebranche and Hume,” Revue
internationale de philosophie,
1 (1938), 143-61; Étienne
Gilson, “De la Critique des formes substantielles au doute
méthodique,” Études sur le rôle de la pensée médiévale dans
la formation du système cartésien
(Paris, 1951), pp. 141-90;
Marie Boas Hall, Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy
(Bloomington, 1965); Peter Hoenen, Cosmologia (Rome,
1949); Max Jammer, Concepts of Force (Cambridge, Mass.,
1957); Alexandre Koyré, “Galilée et la loi d'inertie,” Études
galiléennes,
Vol. III (Paris, 1939); idem, “Newton and Des-
cartes,” Newtonian Studies (London, 1965), pp. 53-200;
David Kubrin, “Newton and the Cyclical Universe, Provi-
dence and the Mechanical Philosophy,” Journal of the His-
tory of Ideas,
28 (1967), 325-46; Maurice Mandelbaum,
Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception (Baltimore, 1964);
Richard McKeon, “Causation and the Geometric Method
in the Philosophy of Spinoza,” The Philosophical Review,
39 (1930), 178-89 and 275-96; Paul Mouy, Le Développe-
ment de la physique cartésienne, 1646-1712
(Paris, 1934);
idem, Les lois du choc des corps d'après Malebranche (Paris,
1927); Joseph Prost, Essai sur l'atomisme et l'occasionalisme
dans la philosophie cartésienne
(Paris, 1907); P. P. Wiener,
“The Experimental Philosophy of Robert Boyle,” The Philo-
sophical Review,
41 (1932), 594-609.

WILLIS DONEY

[See also Atomism; Baconianism; Causation, Final Causes;
God; Man-Machine; Nature.]