spinoza

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In 'Cartographing Gravity' (2026) the organizing terms 'conatus' and 'potentia' are imported from Spinoza's Ethics to name inertia and gravitation, with conatus also traced to a rival non-Spinozist sense in Hobbes

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, spinoza, conatus, operationalism
Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter (de Haro & Elizalde, 2026)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-26 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, operationalism, spinoza
Spinoza's grinding dish was still producing scratch-free lenses in Constantijn Huygens Jr.'s hands a decade after Spinoza's death

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, optics, tacit-knowledge, instrument-making, trade-secrecy
Do the Huygens critical edition and Spinoza's Letter 32 verbatim support the 'Spinoza's dish still scratch-free in 1687' claim?

question answered 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, optics, spinoza, tacit-knowledge, verification