Marcelo Dascal

Table 1

Thematic typology of some of the controversies in some European journals from 1665 to 1705.

 

1- Religious

Real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist: JS 1680 XVII, 1681 XXV, 1687-1688 XIII; HOS Oct. 1688, Aug. 1694.

Protestants vs. Catholics: JS 1686 XIII, 1689 XVI; AE Jun. 1686; HOS Dec. 1687, Mar., Aug. 1688, Sept. 1689, Aug. 1703.

Basnage vs. Meaux, JS 1686 XIII; HOS Feb. 1690.

Meaux vs. Archbishop of Chambray, HOS Aug. 1698, Nov. 1698.

Protestants vs. Jesuits:

Seckendorf vs. Maimburg and Varillas, AE Oct. 1687, Jan. 1688; Aug. 1691; Feb. 1692;

HOS Feb. 1688, 1682, Nov. 1691, Feb. 1692.

Seckendorf vs. Tenzel, HOS May 1690, Nov. 1692, AE May 1692, Nov. 1692.

Jesuit ethics: HOS Dec. 1687, Mar. 1688, May 1701.

Tellier vs. Arnauld, HOS Dec. 1687, Jan. 1690, Feb. 1695.

Jesuits vs. Jansenists:

Malebranche vs. Arnauld, AE Sept. 1685, 1687; HOS Sept. 1687.

Jurieu vs. Arnauld, Telier, AE Sept. 1685; HOS June 1689, Jan. 1690.

Jurieu vs. Meaux, AE Dec. 1689, 1690; HOS May 1690.

Nature of Grace: HOS Nov. 1687, Jul., Jan. 1689, Oct. 1690; JS 1690 XVII; AE Nov., Dec. 1688, Nov. Dec. 1690.

Jurieu vs. Paion, HOS Nov. 1687.

Jurieu vs. Scultet, HOS Dec. 1687.

Predestination: HOS Aug. 1702, Oct. 1702.

Interpretation of the Scriptures: JS 1680 XVII; JS 1689 XVI; AE Feb. 1688; HOS Mar. 1693.

Spanhem vs. Simon, HOS Oct. 1690.

Simon vs. Vosjum, AE Feb. 1686.

Simon vs. Majus, HOS Aug. 1694, AE Apr. 1694, Jul. 1695.

Jurieu vs. Saurin, Witisii vs. Cave, HOS Oct. 1694, Apr. 1696.

Basnage vs. Richardson, HOS Jan. 1704.

Reunion of the Churches:

Wittichius (Cartesian) vs. Marest (anti-Cartesian), HOS Nov. 1687, Jun. 1689.

Socinian Dogma: HOS Sept. 1687.

Malebranche vs. Arnauld, NRL 1702.

Against Roman Church:

Jurieu vs. Richard, HOS Jul. 1690; AE Nov., Dec. 1690.

Catholics vs. Calvinists: AE Sept. 1685, Dec. 1685.

Nicole vs. Claude, HOS Sept. 1689.

Against Jews: HOS Dec. 1687, Feb. 1694; AE Oct. 1688.

Defense of J. Christ's temptation:

Winckler vs. Bekker, HOS Nov. 1694.

Unity of the de Church: JS. 1680 XVII; NRL Nov. 1686; HOS Oct. 1687.

Jurieu vs. Nicole, HOS Oct., Nov., Dec. 1687, Apr. 1688, Sept. 1689; AE Nov., Dec. 1688.

Jurieu vs. Scultet, HOS Dec. 1687, Feb. 1688.

Jurieu vs. Pelisson, HOS Jan. 1688.

2- Scientific

Etymology : JS 1682 X, 1692 XIX; HOS May 1694.

Confusion of languages: JS 1686 XIII.

Perpetual motion: NRL 1685-II; AE Dec. 1686, 1688; JS 1686 XIII.

Microscope: NRL 1684-II.

Mechanics: HOS Aug., Dec. 1688.

Oscillation center: NRL 1684-II; HOS Jun. 1690.

Catelan vs. Bernoulli, AE Jul. 1686.

Naval engineering: AE Aug. 1690.

Aymon vs. Le Montre, HOS Jun. 1701.

Huygens vs. Renau, HOS Aug. 1694.

Elements of natural bodies:

La Montre vs. Hertsoeker, HOS Oct. 1696.

Laws of nature:

Leibniz vs. Catelain, NRL 1687-I, HOS Feb. 1688.

Comets:

Campani vs. Azout, PTRS Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr. 1665.

Azout vs. Hevelius, PTRS Jun. 1665 , Feb., Sept. 1666.

Telescope:

Azout vs. Hooke, PTRS Apr. 1665.

Mathematics:

Hobbes vs. Wallis, PTRS Jul., Aug. 1666.

3- Literary

French language: JS 1687-1688 XIII, 1693 XX, HOS Oct. 1687, Apr. 1693.

Dispute between the "Victoire" and the "Renommée": JS 1694 XXI.

Dispute between the solid et the delicate: JS 1694 XXI.

Defense of Dante's "Comedy": GL 1689.

Eloquence: NRL 1698-I.

Pronunciation of the Greek language: AE Jul. 1686.

Against the "Glossarium univ. Hebraicum" of P.Thomassin, HOS Sept. 1698.

Fabretti vs. Gronovius, HOS Sept. 1687.

4- Philosophical

Conformity of faith and reason:

Bayle – Leibniz - Jaquelot, HOS Jan. 1705.

Union of body and soul:

Leibniz vs. Bayle, HOS Feb. 1696, Jul. 1698, Jun. 1709.

Knowledge of animals: JS 1691 XVIII, 1693 XX; HOS Jan. 1694.

The soul of the animals:

Cartesian vs. anti-Cartesian, NRL 1684-I.

Malebranche vs. Arnauld, HOS Sept. 1687.

Pineal gland: JS 1689 XVI.

Anti-Descartes: HOS Oct. 1689, Apr., Sept. 1691, Jan. 1694.

Locke vs. Bishop of Worcester: NRL 1689-I, II, 1702-I.

5- Historical

Ancient and moderns: JS 1687-88 XIII; NRL 1698-I.

Longe-Pierre vs. Perraut, HOS Nov. 1687, Apr. 1693.

Temple vs. Wotton, HOS Nov. 1694.

History of England:

Varillas vs. Burnet, AE Feb. 1687, May 1688, Sept. 1688, HOS Sept. 1687.

Varillas vs. Larroque, AE May 1688.

Seckendorf vs. Varillas, NRL 1687-I.

"Historiam antiquitates sacras":

Spanheim vs. Baronius, HOS Oct. 1687.

Spanheim vs. Simon, HOS Oct. 1687.

The origin of Goths:

Sternhielm vs. Cluverius, AE Jan. 1686.

"Jugement des savants":

Baillet vs. Menage, AE Sept. 1689; HOS Feb., Aug. 1689.

6- Juridical

Decisions about the "juris matrimonialis": HOS Feb. 1706.

Law of the Franeker Academy:

Eck vs. Huberus, HOS May, Jul. 1688, Jun. 1689.

7- Political

Tolerance: HOS Sept. 1689, Jan. 1692, Sept. 1693.

Leibniz - Arnauld - Pellisson, HOS Jun. 1709.

8- Meta-Controversies

Dangerous effects of certain disputes: NRL 1684-II.

The book of controversies: NRL 1686-I.

Treatise of the controversy's games: NRL 1687-I.

Satire: HOS May 1695.

Oiris vs. Paperbroch, NRL 1684-II.

... methodus polemica: AE Feb. 1685.

"Logica eclectica sive summa controversiarum": AE Feb. 1687.

Quarrel about verbal disputes: HOS Sept. 1701, Feb. 1702.