El color en El Mundo cartesiano

Abstract

Descartes’ fable The World or The Treaty of the Light is one hypothesis that tries to explain various phenomena that happen in the natural world, having as a starting point the principles of mechanisism. The first part of this work historically contextualizes the problem and exposes the basic principles of Cartesian mechanisism. In the second section, the Cartesian mechanisist explanation about the perception of color is developed, which is enmarked in a vision of a universe full of matter, constituted by parts that respond to the laws of mechanics. In this singular universe, the phenomenon of the light paradigmatically represents the communication of movement through an adequate media.