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Notes to Pages– to the initiatives of other well-known dissenters, among whom he lists Ramus,
Patrizzi, Telesio, Basso, Lull, and the Rose Cross fraternity. See Schoock (),
Preface; Verbeek (),.
.Campanella had reissuedDe sensu rerum(Paris,) and dedicated it to Richelieu.
However, the books sent by Huygens and offered by Mersenne could also have
been copies of an earlier publication entitledReal Philosophy(Frankfurt,).
.Descartes to Mersenne,November(ii.).
.Editors’ note,CM,i., and letter,pp.–.
.See Cornier to Mersenne,March andMarch:CM,i.,–.
.See, for example, Guez de Balzac ().
.See letters v and xxvi, inLetres de Phyllarque a Ariste(), part I,,–.
.Guez de Balzac (b), ii.,–.Ihavemodernized the spelling.
.See iii.,–.
.Descartes to Villebressieu, [summer] (i.).
.I,; and Balzac to Descartes,March(i.–).
.Descartes to [Pollot?], [?] (v.–).
.Forthe siege of La Rochelle, see Cr ́et ́e() and Collins (),.
.Recorded in hisPolitical Testamentand quoted in Cr ́et ́e(),.
.Baillet (), i..
.Forthe history of the manuscript of theRules, see Van Otegem (), ii.–.
.Foramodern critical edition, see Giovanni Crapulli’s edition, listed here as
Descartes (). There is a French translation by Jean-Luc Marion, listed as
Descartes ().
.See especially Jean-Paul Weber ().
.See Wallace (a,b).
.Alquiea ́ ddsanote (:i.)tosaythat Descartes changed his mind about this
later, in the metaphysics. However, I think his later writings are consistent with
this insight about concept formation, including the concepts used in metaphysics.
.De Caus (), “Letter of Dedication” (unpaginated).
.Ibid.,,.
.Ibid., Book II, Problem I (unpaginated).
.Ibid., Problem XXVII.
.There is an extensive literature on this topic. See, for example, Levack ().
.The account of diabolic possession at an Ursuline convent in Loudon, from
to, was more notorious than other cases but not atypical. See De Certeau
(). Craig Stephenson drew my attention to this incident.
.Forexample, Saint Francis de Sales encouraged those attending Mass to say the
rosary in private when they could neither see nor hear the priest because there
was a rood-screen between them and the altar, and they could not understand him
either, since the services were celebrated in Latin. Ari`es (), iii..Chapter
.The exact date is not clear. Descartes refers, in theDiscourse,tothe decision ‘three
years’ (vi.) previously not to publishThe World. This dates the composition of