…From around 1828, he moved to the Netherlands, and lived in hiding there for about 20 years, moving from place to place. During the first nine months in the Netherlands, he devoted himself to metaphysical speculation, but after a report of a sun-like phenomenon observed in Rome, he switched to studying natural science, and in 1833 he completed his Cosmology, consisting of On Light and On Man. However, upon learning of Galileo's condemnation in the same year, he gave up on publishing it, and instead published three tentative works, On Refraction, On Meteorology, and On Geometry, with a preface, Discourse on Method, in 1837. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Cosmology (Descartes)" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…28年ころからはオランダに居を移し,以後約20年間各地を転々としながらこの国に隠れ住んだ。オランダでの〈最初の9ヵ月〉は形而上学的思索に専念したが,ローマで観察された幻日現象の報告をきっかけに自然学の研究に移り,33年には《光論》と《人間論》とから成る《宇宙論》を完成した。しかし同年のガリレイ断罪を知ってその発表を断念し,代りに《屈折光学》《気象学》《幾何学》の三つの〈試論〉に,序文として《方法叙説》を付けて37年に刊行した。… ※「《宇宙論》(デカルト)」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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