the dogma of the Eucharist, they believed, "the accidents of the bread and wine [must be] distinct from their sub- stance." King Louis XIV, who selected Church officials within France, feared a split in the French Church-and Vatican intervention.
But attacks against Cartesians were not limited to censorship of phi- losophers and theologians. Descartes' concepts served as the founda- tion for the explanations of matter and motion put forth physicist Jacques Rohault (1620-75). To his regret,...