... Marin Mersenne René Descartes anatomical experiments experimental empiricism rationalist epistemology ...

... of inaudible tones is explored as a case study. Against the background of the Vesalian Renaissance, the chapter provides a detailed analysis of René Descartes's anatomical experiments in the Low Countries. It portrays the philosopher as a fervent hands-on experimenter and further explores Cartesian...

... Chapter 3 reframes the historical inquiry of the previous chapters as a philosophical project. Drawing on the work of Edmund Husserl, it describes his concept of epoché and explains how it allows a rereading of Descartes's meditation on wax in the context of his anatomical experiments...