The World - Treatise On Light
Traité du monde et de la lumière by René Descartes (1596–1650) was written between 1629 and 1633.
Our Sensations and the Things That Produce Them
Chapter 1
The Nature of Heat and Light
Chapter 2
Hardness and Liquidity
Chapter 3
The Void--Why are we not Aware of Certain Bodies?
Chapter 4
The Aethereal Elements and Their Qualities
Chapter 5
The Aethereal Universe
Chapter 6
The Three Rules of Nature of the Aethereal Universe
Chapter 7
Rule 3: Angular Momentum
Chapter 7b
The Formation of the Sun and the Stars
Chapter 8
The Birth of Electromagnetism from Spacetime
Chapter 8b
The Origin of Matter and the Stars
Chapter 9
The Origin of the Planets and Comets
Chapter 9b
The Planets the Earth and Moon
Chapter 10
How are the Orbits of the Moons Formed?
Chapter 10b
What Gives Objects Their Weight?
Chapter 11
The Balance Between the Aethers
Chapter 11b
The Ebb and Flow of the Sea
Chapter 12
Cartesian Inertia and Gravitation
Chapter 13
Solar Wind and Black Holes
Chapter 13b
Supermassive Black Holes as Galactic Vortices
Chapter 13c
The Properties of Light
Chapter 14
The Aether and Gravitational Lensing
Chapter 15
Comets
Chapter 15b