What was the seventeenth century mechanical philosophy as developed by René Descartes?

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What was the seventeenth century mechanical philosophy as developed by René Descartes? In what ways was the Cartesian mechanical philosophy a modern scientific theory? To what degree, if at all, was it an expression of its social and cultural moment, the mercantile culture of seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?

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