end CUNYB/Clarke December, :
Notes to Pages– .Descartes to∗∗∗[June](iv.).
.The use of ‘ermitage’isfound in Descartes to Chanut,March(iv.).
.Forhis work on plants, see Regius to Descartes,November(iv.), and
Baillet (), ii.–.
.Descartes to Tobias Andreae,July(iv.).
.La methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux(Antwerp,).
.Descartes to Newcastle [April]. (iv.–). This first letter to Newcastle
seems to have resulted from a conversation they had at Egmond, and included
discussion of a range of physiological questions about heat in animals, fevers,
animal spirits, and the cause of sleep.
.Descartes to Newcastle, October(iv.).
.Descartes to Newcastle, October: ‘The treatise on animals...presupposes
many experiences without which it is impossible for me to complete it and which I
have not yet had the opportunity to perform – nor do I know when I shall have such
an opportunity. I cannot promise to publish it for quite some time....However,
the treatise on animals that I am thinking about, and which I have not been able
to complete yet...’(iv.,).
.Sorbi`ere to Petit,February,inSorbi`ere (),.
.Borel (),.
.One was a Dutchman called Bils, who worked in Rouen and Rotterdam, and
another was Swedish, Peter Ossemius in Upsalla. See Sorbi`ere (a),,.
.Sorbi`ere (a),.
.Borel (),.
.Baillet (), ii.. Baillet links this disregard for other authors with the line
in theDiscourse on Methodwhere Descartes says: ‘If one spends too much time
travelling, one eventually becomes a stranger in one’s own country’ (vi.).
.Descartes to Picot,November(iv.).
.Descartes to Pollot,May(iv.–).
.Descartes to Pollot,May(iv.–).Chapter
.Descartes to∗∗∗,October(iv.).
.Baillet (), ii..
.Descartes to Clerselier, June/July(iv.): ‘My hope of being in Paris soon
is the reason why I am less anxious to write to those whom I hope to have the
honour of seeing there.’ In fact, Descartes deferred this visit until the following
year.
.Sorbi`ere to Patin, in Sorbi`ere (a): ‘When I lived in Leiden, he operated a
charitable medical practice and all he asked of the poor people whom he treated
was that they would give him a faithful report of the success of his remedies....he
was often in his laboratory and I saw him many times in the vestibule of his
house...distributing drugs from his well supplied cabinet, from eight to nine
o’clock in the morning and from one to two o’clock in the afternoon’ (pp.,
; see also p.).