Author:René Descartes

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René Descartes (1596–1650)

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dubbed "the Founder of Modern Philosophy" and "the Father of Modern Mathematics"

René Descartes

Works

• Compendium musicæ (1618)
  • Renatus Des-Cartes excellent compendium of musick by Brouncker (1653) (HathiTrust)
• Regulae ad directionem ingenii (1628)
  • Rules for the Direction of the Mind unsourced Anscombe and Geach translation (1954)
• Discours de la methode (1637)
  • A Discourse Of A Method For the well guiding of Reason (1649)
  • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Veitch (1850) (IA)
  • Discourse on the Method (Veitch translation from project Gutenberg)
• La Géométrie (1637) (external link)
  • Translated as The Geometry of René Descartes by Smith and Latham (1925) (IA)
• La Dioptrique (1637)
  • Optics (1637)
• Les Météores (1637)
• Meditationes de prima philosophia (1641)
  • Six Metaphysical Meditations by William Molyneux (1680)
  • René Descartes: His Life and Meditations by Lowndes (1878) (IA)
  • Meditations on First Philosophy, Haldane translation (unsourced) (1911)
• Objections and Replies (1642)
• Principia philosophiae (1644)
  • Principles of Philosophy, translated by Veitch (unsourced) (1850)
• Notae in programma (1647)
  • Comments on a Certain Broad-sheet (1647)
• Les passions de l'âme (1649)
  • The Passions Of the Soule In three Books (1650)
  • Passions of the Soul (1649)

Collections

• The Philosophy of Descartes by Torrey (1892) (IA)
• Discourse on Method and Metaphysical Meditations by Rawlings (1901) (IA)
• Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes translated by Veitch (1901) (IA) (IA)
• The Philosophical Works of Descartes, translated by Haldane and Ross (1911) (IA)

Works on Descartes

• The influence of Descartes on metaphysical speculation in England by William Cunningham (1876) external link
• The Principles of Descartes' Philosophy by Benedictus de Spinoza (1905) external link
• Descartes His Life And Times by Elizabeth S. Haldane (1905) external link
• French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes (1910) external link
• "René Descartes," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Descartes, René," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "René Descartes," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Sketch of Rene Descartes" in Popular Science Monthly, 37 (October 1890)
• Descartes by John Pentland Mahaffy (1880)
• "Descartes to Newton" in A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori (1893)

On his works

• "Second Book: The Great Systems" from A Brief History of Modern Philosophy by Harald Høffding (1912)