Books and Volumes:

Books:

Cosmologia carteziană [Cartesian Cosmology; in Romanian], București: Editura Universității din București, 2021. [download (Table of contents and the References)].

Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: between metaphysics and physics, Zeta Books, Foundations of Modern Thought series, 2017.  

Edited Volumes:

Co-editor of the volume Recent Advances in Digital Humanities: Romance Language Applications, Eds. Anca Dinu, Mădălina Chitez, Liviu Dinu and Mihnea Dobre. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2022.

Dobre, Mihnea and Bujor, Ioana (eds.). “Antoine Le Grand and Jacques Rohault: Le Grand and his Annotations to Rohault’s Treatise on Natural Philosophy.” Society and Politics, vol. 16/1 (31), 2022. [Open Access]

Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu; Bujor, Ioana and Vida, Grigore (eds.). “Jacques Rohault, Preface to the Traité de Physique. A critical edition and commentary of four early modern versions of Rohault’s preface.” Society and Politics, vol. 15/1 (29), 2021. [Open Access]

Cartesian Empiricisms. Co-edited volume with Tammy Nyden. Dordrecht: Springer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31, 2013. [download (the Table of contents and Index)]

Dissertation/ Book:

Metaphysics and physics in Cartesian natural philosophy: Descartes and early French Cartesians on the foundation of natural philosophy, Ph.D. dissertation, Proefschrift Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2010. [download (the Table of contents and the Summary)]

Articles and book chapters:

“Jacques Rohault on Medicine.” In Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline, edited by Fabrizio Baldassarri. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 361-376, 2023.

“Rohault’s Private Lessons on Cosmology,” chapter in the edited volume Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age, ed. Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2022. [download (references)]

Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu and Bujor, Ioana. “Cartesian Visual Cosmology: Ways Towards a Digital Platform.” In Recent Advances in Digital Humanities: Romance Language Applications, Eds. Anca Dinu, Mădălina Chitez, Liviu Dinu and Mihnea Dobre. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2022. [download (first page and references)]

“Jacques Rohault’s Mathematical Physics”. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (2): 414-439, 2020. [download (first page and references)]

“Strategies of Dissemination for Cartesian Cosmology: Philosophy, Theology and ‘Mosaic physics’.” JEMS (Journal of Early Modern Studies), Volume 9, Issue 1 (Spring 2020): 123-131.

“Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Experimentalism.” In Nadler, Steven and Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Tad Schmaltz (eds.), Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 388-401. [download (first page and references)]

“Henry More and William Petty: Revisiting an Early Modern Polemic,” Early Science and Medicine 23 (3), 2018: 244-264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00233P03. [download (first page)]

“Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space.” In Vermeir, Koen and Jonathan Regier (eds.), Boundaries, Extents and Circulations - Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016, pp. 153-178. [download]

“Descartes and the Hartlib Circle: an episode in of knowledge communication in the early modern period” [in Romanian, Descartes si cercul lui Hartlib: un episod de comunicare a cunoaşterii in perioada modernităţii timpurii] in Revista de Filosofie 63 (6) , 2016: 725-738. [download]

“Mixing Cartesianism and Newtonianism: the Reception of Cartesian Physics in England.” In Gianna Katsiampoura (ed.), Scientific Cosmopolitanism and Local Cultures: Religions, Ideologies, Societies, Proceedings of 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation/Institute of Historical Research, 2014, pp. 126-131. [download]

“On the Philosophy of Experiment in Early Modern Period” [in Romanian, Considerații despre filosofia experimentului în perioada modernă timpurie] in Revista de Filosofie 61 (6): 631-642, 2014.  [download]

“Introduction” (co-authored with Tammy Nyden). In In Dobre, Mihnea and Tammy Nyden (eds.), Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 1-21. [download]

“Rohault’s Cartesian Physics.” In Dobre, Mihnea and Tammy Nyden (eds.), Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 203-226. [download]

“On Glass-Drops: a Case Study of the Interplay Between Experimentation and Explanation in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy.” Journal of Early Modern Studies 2, 2013: 105-124. [download]

“Knowledge and Certainty in the Foundation of Cartesian Natural Philosophy”, Revue Roumaine de philosophie 57 (1), 2013: 95-110. [download]

“Cartesianism and Chymistry.” In Disciplines and Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Thought (a special issue of the journal Society and Politics, vol. 5, no. 2 (10), 2011), pp. 121-136. Open Access [download]

“Rohault’s Traité de physique and its Newtonian reception” in Roca-Rosell, A. (ed.). The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010. Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC, 2012, pp. 389-394. [download]

“Early Cartesianism and the Journal des Sçavans, 1665-1671” Studium, vol. 4, no. 4 (2011): 228-240. Open Access [download]

“The Vanishing Nature of Body in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy.” In Anstey, Peter and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature: Descartes and Beyond. London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 11-30. [download]

“The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century: Cartesianism in Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670.” In Alexandrescu, Vlad (ed.). Branching off: The Early Moderns in Quest of the Unity of Knowledge, Zeta Books, 2009, pp. 333-358.

“The Foundations of Physics: Descartes’s Styles of Thinking and its Cartesian followers” in Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology (Proceedings of the 3rd InternationalConference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna,September 10-12 2008), 2009, pp. 941-948.

“Rolul experimentului în filosofia carteziană: o abordare individuală a ştiinţei”, Analele Universităţii “Dunarea de Jos” din Galati, fascicula XVIII (5), Filosofie, anul III, 2005, pp. 36-43. (“The Role of Experiment in the Cartesian Natural Philosophy: An Individual Approach to Science”).

“Revoluţie ştiinţifică în secolul al XVII-lea. O analiză a conceptului de revoluţie ştiinţifică în contextul schimbărilor din secolul al XVII-lea”, Analele Universităţii “Dunarea de Jos” din Galati, fascicula XVIII (3), Filosofie, anul II 2004, pp. 139-161. (“The Scientific Revolution in the Seventeenth Century. An analysis of the concept of scientific revolution in the context of the seventeenth century natural philosophy.”)

“Discourse on Descartes’ Method.” In Alexandrescu, Vlad and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.). Esprits modernes: études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs, Bucharest: Editura Universităţii Bucureşti; Arad: „Vasile Goldiş” University Press, 2003, pp. 117-130.

Book reviews, encyclopaedia entries, other contributions:

Book review “Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an Der Oder in the Seventeenth Century, Written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo.” Early Science and Medicine 28, no. 2 (July 10, 2023): 251–255.

Dobre, Mihnea; Babeș, Ovidiu; Bujor, Ioana and Vida, Grigore. (2022). “Cartesian and Newtonian authors: a database” [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6923317 (Open Access).

“Review: Ann Blair, Kaspar Greyerz (eds.), 2020. Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750.” Physis 56 (1-2): 412-414, 2021.

“Cordemoy, Géraud de.” In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_616-1. 

Géraud de Cordemoy, Epistola scrisă unui învăţat Părinte, pentru a arăta: I. Că Sistemul Domnului Descartes și opinia sa cu privire la fiare nu conţin nimic periculos; II. Și că tot ceea ce a scris despre aceasta pare extras din primul Capitol al Genezei, traducere de Mihnea Dobre şi Grigore Vida, în Mihnea Dobre, Cosmologia cartezină, București: Editura Universității din București, 2021.

Book review of "The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, October 2020, 1–3.

“Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations”. Virtual Exhibition. Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations, April 2020.

Dobre, Mihnea, Babeș, Ovidiu, & Bujor, Ioana. (2020, June 5). Cartesian Cosmological Illustrations: a digital approach. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4299767. [download]

Book review of “Andrea Strazzoni. Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to ’s Gravesande,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (2), 2020. [download (first page)]

“Cartesianism and Experimental Philosophy.” In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. [download (first page and references)]

Book review of “Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Edited by Lesley B. Cormack, Steven A. Walton, John A. Schuster, 2017.” Early Science and Medicine 24 (3), 2019: 292-295.

“Rohault, Jacques” article published in the section on “Mechanical Philosophy” of the Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe. Springer, 2019. [download (first page and references)]

Encyclopaedia entry on Jacques Rohault for the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (ed. Lawrence Nolan), Cambridge University Press, 2016: 657-659.

Book review of Jacques Rohault, Traité de physique, édition par Simone Mazauric, Paris, Édition du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (Collection CTHS Sciences n° 12), 2014, 830 p. In Artefact. Techniques, histoire etsciences humaines. Le XXe siècle du Technique. Formation, recherché et économie 3/ 2016: 231-235.

Book review of Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and Secondary Qualities (Oxford University Press, 2011). In Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) 3 (1)/ 2014: 149-153.

Book review of Manning, Gideon (ed.), Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy (Brill, 2012). In British Journal for the History of Science 47 (2)/ June 2014: 375-376.

“Material Objects and Circulation of Knowledge inEarly Modern Low Countries.” Book-review of Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy(eds.), Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (Berlin:Lit Verlag, 2011) in Society and Politics 7, 1 (13): 117-119, 2013.

Book review of Antonia LoLordo, Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy in Early Science and Medicine, 16/ 2 (2011), pp. 168-172.

“Filosofia naturală şi naşterea ştiinţei moderne (Natural Philosophy and the Birth of Modern Science)” (Book review for Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685), Studii de ştiinţă şi cultură, Anul VI (2010), Nr. 4 (23), pp. 182-183.

Review of Fred Ablondi, Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian (Milwaukee, 2005), in Early Science and Medicine 11 (2006), 365-67.