Descartes: A Biography

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Planstrom, an officer in the Stockholm guards, stole the philosopher’s cranium

from his coffin and substituted another in its place. Adam (),, discusses

the probability that the cranium returned from Sweden and stored in the Museum

of Natural History, Paris, is that of Descartes.

.Baillet (), i..

.Descartes to an unknown correspondent [?] (v.).

.Armogathe and Carraud ().

.Index(),–.

.Theedition includes the dedication to the Sorbonne, the Preface to the

Reader, and the Synopsis, together with: () six meditations; () the first four

sets of objections and replies; () Descartes’ note, translated from French, which

explains why he omitted the Fifth Objections and his letter in reply to Gassendi’s

Instances;() the Sixth Objections and Replies; ()Comments on a Certain Manifesto;

and ()anAppendix containing (a) the Fifth and Seventh Objections and Replies,

(b) the letter to Father Dinet, and (c) the letter to Voetius.

.Descartes (,,).

.La Forge published his own summary of Descartes’ theory of mind two years later.

See La Forge (,).

.Some of these authors are discussed in Clarke ().