Descartes: A Biography

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Notes

Preface and Acknowledgments

.Baillet (), i. pp. i, x, xii.

.Adam (), p. i.

Introduction

.Copernicus (), p. xx.

.Copernicus (),,.

.Kepler (),.

.Kepler (),.

.Galilei (),,.

.Fourth session (April). Tanner (), ii,; and Blackwell (),.

.Foscarini’sLetter concerning the Opinion of the Pythagoreans and Copernicus about

the mobility of the Sun and the new Pythagorean System of the Worldis translated in

Blackwell (),–. Campanella’sDefence of Galileo the Mathematician from

Florenceis translated in Campanella ().

Chapter

.The term ‘plague’ was used for any contagious and mortal disease, including scarlet

fever and typhus. There was a large outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe in–

, which particularly affected Burgundy and the Loire valley. See Berce( ́ ), i.

, and Collins (),–.

.See Chapter.

.This was expressed by Montaigne (:): ‘What good did their great erudition

do for Varro and Aristotle? Did it free them from human ills?...Could logic console

them for the gout – and did they feel it any the less because they knew how that

humour lodged in their joints?’

.Fordetails, see Chapter.

.Descartes, Cath ́erine (),.

.Descartes to Van Schooten,April(v.).

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