end CUNYB/Clarke December, :
Notes to Pages–.The first edition appeared in, and the second edition in. Della Porta
(), “Preface to the Reader,”.
.Della Porta (),–.
.Ibid.,.
.‘Every natural substance (I mean a compound body) is composed of matter and
form,asofher principles.’ Della Porta (),;Latin text,.
.Della Porta (),–,;Latin text,,–.
.TheArs brevis,inaFrench translation of, defines the purpose of the art as
follows: ‘Le sujet de cet art, est de respondre de toutes sortes de questions, suppose ́
que l’on sc ̧achecequi se dict par le terme ou le mot.’
.I borrow from Jama ()for the following.
.Baillet (), i..
.Baillet, ibid., quotes the phrase in quotation marks from his copy of Descartes’
Olympica(since lost).
.Pierre de la Brosse (), ii..
.This is discussed in detail in Flanagan (),–.
.Dee (),.
.This is especially so in thePropaedeumata Aphoristica(). For an analysis of
Dee’s intellectual development, see Clulee ().
.Forthe influence of Della Porta on the early notebooks of Descartes, see Shea
(),.
.He returns to a discussion of Charron’s views about animal intelligence many years
later. See Chapter, this volume.
.Richeome ().
.Ibid.,.
.Borell (:), places Descartes ‘at the Battel of Prague’, while Adam (:)
claims that he could not have been present there since he went travelling in March
.
.Baillet (), i..Chapter
.Baillet (), I,–. See also Berc ́e(), i..
.Descartes to his brother, Pierre,April(i.–), and Descartes to his father,
May(i.–); Baillet (), ii..
.Westfall (),.
.October(ii.).
.Meteors, vi.: ‘In the same way I remember seeing one time in the Alps, around
the month of May, that when the snow was heated and made heavy by the sun the
least movement of the air was enough to make it fall in a great mass which was
called, I think, an avalanche; when it resounded in the valleys, it was fairly similar
to the sound of thunder.’
.Council of Trent, session(April), Tanner (), ii.. This was
expanded to require religious to have the approval of their superiors, and to pre-
vent books being published without their authors’ names by holding readers legally