Contents

Contents
articles
Science and the comings and goings of common sense
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9
Michel Paty
The modes of teleology in Cuvier, Darwin and Claude Bernard
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27
Gustavo Caponi
Origin of life and origin of species in 18th century: the viewpoints of Maupertius
43
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Maurício de Carvalho Ramos
scientific documents
Logic, experience and authority
in the letter from Galileo to Liceti on September 15, 1640
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63
Pablo Rubén Mariconda
Letter from Galileo Galilei to Fortunio Liceti
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75
Conarius and memory in the letter from Descartes to Mersenne on April 1, 1640
Marisa Carvalho de Oliveira Franco Donatelli
Letter from René Descartes to Marin Mersenne
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87
notes and criticisms
Human cloning and ethics: the Clonaid-Raelians case
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Maurício de Carvalho Ramos
Gunther von Hagens’ “De humani corporis circus”
Regina André Rebollo
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93
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