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Infinitely Narrow: How Spinoza Corrects Descartes' Lenses
Corry Shores has another nice post up in his series on my study of Spinoza’s optical theories and practices. He is the only person, as far as I know, who has made an attempt to read through the … more →
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Infinitely Narrow: How Spinoza Corrects Descartes' Lenses
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kvond wrote 1 month ago: Corry Shores has another nice post up in his series on my study of Spinoza’s optical theories … more →
Spinoza and Optics and Pirates
kvond wrote 4 months ago: I see now that Corry Shores has put up a reading, and mutual expression of some of my work on Spionz … more →
Spinoza's Optical Letters: Redux
kvond wrote 6 months ago: As some know, primarily last summer I spent my time researching and theorizing on Spinoza’s le … more →
Evidence toward the nature of Spinoza's Lathe(s)
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Writing an email today to an interested party I found myself running over the evidence that Spinoza … more →
A Look Back for a Moment, The Hole of Spinoza's Vision
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Right now I’m busy composing my Cabinet article, a result of this width of research I have don … more →
Spinoza's Circle and the Interior
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Some Ruminations on Spinoza’s “Simplest” Thought A single figure keeps returning t … more →
Spinoza's "Spring Pole" Lathe: Experience to Metaphysics and Back
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Spinoza’s Practiced Knowing I mentioned in my recent post on the likely design of Spinoza … more →
Why Spinoza? A Historical, Sociological Argument
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Why Study Spinoza? … The question may arise when considering the work of a philosopher, why sh … more →
Spinoza's Grinding Lathe: An Extended Hypothesis
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Johannes Hevelius, also, Johannes Hewel, Johann Hewelke, Johannes Höwelcke or Jan Heweliusz (January … more →
The 1661 Technique of "Glass Drops", a Possible Link to Bead Lens Microscopes
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Robert Hooke published a very brief account of the technique for the making of bead lenses, by melti … more →
Spinoza: Not As Abused As Is Said
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Two Kinds of Disparagment Found In the Huygens Letters I am looking at the references to Spinoza mad … more →
The Text of van Gutschoven's Letter to Huygens No. 1148
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: [Posted here is the full original text of Huygens letter 1147, for which there are some comments her … more →
A Method of Grinding Small, Spherical Lenses: Spinoza
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Van Gutschoven’s Design for Grinding Small Lenses: Letter No. 1147 We have in a letter written … more →
Huygens's Comments On Spinoza's Theory of the Microscope to His Brother
kvond wrote 1 year ago: [Opening Comment: I post below an extensive excerpt from a significant letter by the hand of Christi … more →
Govert Bidloo's 1698 Reference to a Spinoza Microscope
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Dutch Republic Stadtholder and King of England, William III No Second Spinoza Scope For those that h … more →
Leibniz' "optical" Response to the Theologico-Political Treatise
kvond wrote 1 year ago: [For those interested in the optical response, skip down to "The Problem of the TTP"] Letter 45, Lei … more →
Spinoza and Tuberculosis: His Disease and Devotion
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: [Tuberculosis can be a difficult disease to diagnosis. The following is working under the assumption … more →
Spinoza's Eyes of the Mind and the Grinding Form
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Three References to Sight Still, we sense and experience ourselves to be eternal. For the mind no le … more →
Spinoza's Ethics, A Polished Lens
kvond wrote 1 year ago: Polishing Lenses and Propositions I want to set out some basic thoughts on a guiding intuition of my … more →
