Bucket argument
Videos
Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument is a thought experiment that was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the
The interface of two immiscible liquids rotating around a vertical axis is an upward-opening circular paraboloid.
René Descartes
Videos
René Descartes was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of science; theology; mathematics, in which he connected the previously
Bucket argument
…continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body. The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported (in part) by Gottfried Leibniz. It held that empty space is a metaphysical impossibility because space is nothing other than the…
Portrait after Frans Hals
Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine.
Portrait of René Descartes by Jan Baptist Weenix, 1647–1649
Portrait of René Descartes by Pieter Nason (1647)