The significance of Descartes's reliance on mechanical analogies seems to go unremarked.
Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College. This book illustrates the convergence of several of his main areas of interest, including the gradually expanding reform movements of the post-Reformation period, the intellectual geography of the Thirty Years' War, and prospects for rewriting aspects of intellectual history from the bottom up with the assistance of large pools of
digitally assembled and analysed data.