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

• Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1628)
• Discourse on the Method (1637)
• La Géométrie (1637)
• Optics (1637)
• Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
• Objections and Replies (1642)
• Principles of Philosophy (1644)
• Comments on a Certain Broadsheet (1647)
• Passions of the Soul (1649)
• Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes (1901) external link

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
• “Descartes, René,” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “René Descartes,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Sketch of Rene Descartes", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 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)