Descartes: A Biography

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.The committee also included Meinardus Schotanus (theology), Guilielmus

Stratenus (medicine), and Arnold Senguerd (philosophy). See Verbeek (),

.

.Descartes to Pollot, March(iii.).

.Descartes to Regius, April(iii.).

.Quoted in Descartes,Correspondance,v.–.

.Descartes to Mersenne,December(iii.).

.Descartes repeats this altruistic justification for replying to Voetius in a letter to

Mersenne,March(iii.–).

.These letters are now lost. Descartes quotes from them in his letter to the French

ambassador, La Thuillerie,January(iv.), and in hisApologetic Letter

(viii-.–). He told Van Hogelande where to find these letters among the

papers that he entrusted to him, in a suitcase that was to be opened after his death.

Descartes to Van Hogelande,August(v.).

.Mersenne to Voetius,December(iii.–).

.Huygens to Descartes,January(iii.).

.Descartes to Samuel Maresius [late January or early February] (iii.–

). The book in question wasDe Confraternitate Mariana(On the Marian

Confraternity).

.The toleration of Catholicism in districts recovered from the Spanish continued

to be a contentious issue in subsequent alliances between France and the United

Provinces, and it was one of the reasons why theStadholderoften found himself

atodds with a changing majority, of Counter-Remonstrants or Arminians, in

the largest province (Holland). In the–campaign, Richelieu insisted on

toleration of the Catholic religion in captured territories.

.One cannot assume that he wrote the book in the order in which it was published.

However, the sections on magnetism eventually appeared in the final part, Part IV,

sectionsff.

.Descartes to Colvius,September,repeats this assessment. Descartes found

‘nothing solid’ in Kircher (iv.).

.Descartes to Mersenne,June.Hequalified his lack of interest in Jansen

with the phrase: ‘I would be happy to know where it was published so that I can

get a copy if I need one’ (iii.).

.Gassendi’s book wasDe motu impresso a motore translato, epistolae duae(Paris,).

.Descartes to Mersenne,February(iii.). Gassendi had accepted the

decision by the committee of cardinals to punish Galileo for his disobedience,

without conceding that their decision was an article of faith (pp.–); hence

Descartes’ lack of sympathy for his new book on motion, including the Earth’s

motion.

.Descartes to Huygens,/February:‘Ihavelittle trust in experiments

that I have not done myself....artisans implement so poorly what they are told to

do’ (iii.).

.Descartes to Colvius,April(iii.–).

.Descartes to Colvius,April(iii.).

.Schoock (). Rivet refers to its appearance in a letter to Sarrau,March,

in Bots and Leroy (–), i..