end CUNYB/Clarke December, :
Notes to Pages–increased with the passing of time. In,apamphlet was published in Paris
that was subsequently translated into English as:ATruth Known to very Few: viz.
That the Jesuits are down-right compleat Atheists: Proved such, and condemned for it
byTwo Sentences of the Famous Faculty of Sorbonne().
.Descartes to Mersenne,March(iii.–).
.Descartes to Mersenne,April(iii.). The following month he had moved
to Leiden, but was still toying with the idea of visiting England. On this occasion
he had been invited by Kenelm Digby, but Descartes thought it would be best,
if he were to go there, to travel for personal reasons rather than simply because
he was invited by someone else. Descartes to Mersenne,June(iii.). I
discuss Digby’s relations with Descartes in Chapter.
.Descartes to Pollot,May(iii.). See also Descartes to Mersenne,June
,inwhich he refers to his change of residence as the reason why he had not
replied to letters since March (iii.).
.Regius to Descartes,May(iii.); Descartes to Regius,May
(iii.).
.Descartes to Regius,May(iii.). I discuss Descartes’ relations with Van
Schurman in Chapter.
.Bos (),, speculates that Descartes may have been planning merely to visit
his daughter Francine, who had died in Amersfoort onSeptember, since
there is no other indication of his having plans to live there.
.Descartes to Mersenne,July(iii.–).
.Descartes to Huygens, August(iii.), where he mentions a trip of four or
five months; and Descartes to Mersenne,September(iii.), where he
mentions the proposed date of departure.
.Descartes to Mersenne,September(iii.–).
.Descartes to Mersenne,September(iii.).
.Descartes to Mersenne,October,inwhich he promised to send it ‘in eight
or nine days at the latest....I wish to have a copy made first’ (iii.). Descartes to
Mersenne,November:‘Isent myMetaphysicsyesterday to Mr. Huygens
to forward to you’ (iii.).
.The proposed title was evidently in Latin:Renati Descartes Meditationes de prima
Philosophia(iii.).
.Descartes to Gibieuf,November(iii.).
.Decartes to Mersenne,November(iii.–).
.Descartes to Mersenne,December(iii.,).
.Huygens to Descartes,July(iii.), and Descartes to Huygens,
July(iii.). Descartes had a good excuse for not consulting Barlaeus.
He had invited him to submit objections to theMeteorsin,but, despite hav-
ing kept the manuscript for over a year, he had produced nothing. Besides, given
his theological leanings, Barlaeus was most unlikely to react favourably to the
Meditations.
.Descartes to Mersenne,December(iii.–). This point is repeated
in Descartes to Mersenne,January, when he suggests, as a title for the