In this paper our aim is to examine the special interest that some major seventeenth century philosophical figures have shown in the achievements of Archimedean geometry. Given the excellence of the work of Archimedes, it is to his work that philosophers like Descartes, Spinoza or Pascal have been referring in order either to clarify some points of their own philosophies, or to find a sound basis for the modern mathematical conception of nature.
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