end CUNYB/Clarke December, :
Notes to Pages– contact person in Alkmaar (Mr. Adam Spijcker) through whom her letters could
reach their destination, and she decided to hold onto the manuscript lest it be lost.
See Descartes to a lawyer,April(iv.). Descartes also refers to the draft
manuscript in a letter to Chanut,June:‘Ioutlined this winter [–]
a little treatise on the passions of the soul, without having any intention however
of publishing it’ (iv.).
.Descartes to Elizabeth [May](iv.).
.See Van Otegem (), ii..
.Descartes to Elizabeth,October(iv.): ‘Since your highness took the
trouble to read the treatise that I had drafted previously, concerning the nature of
animals, you already know how I think that different impressions are formed in
their brain.’
.Descartes to Elizabeth [May](iv.,–).
.Descartes to Mersenne,September(iv.).
.Descartes to Mersenne,October(iv.–).
.The breach of their friendship is made explicit in his letter to Mersenne,Novem-
ber:‘Ithink it is best if everyone knew that we are no longer friends’ (iv.).
.Descartes to Father Charlet, [December](iv.): ‘I can tell you, in truth,
that if I had followed only my own inclination, I would never have published
anything.’
.Descartes to Elizabeth [December](iv.).
.Descartes to Mersenne,September(iv.).
.Descartes to [Noel], ̈ December(iv.), where he regrets the delay in
receiving the letter that arrived only onDecember. The two books were:Aphorismi
physici seu physicae peripateticae principia breviter ac dilucide proposita(La Fl`eche,
) andSol Flamma, sive Tractatus de Sole, ut flamma est, ejusque pabulo(Paris,
).
.Descartes to Mersenne,November(iv.).
.Descartes to Noel, ̈ December(iv.).
.Descartes to Elizabeth [December](iv.).
.This had originally appeared in theLetter to G. Voetiusin(viii-.), and is
repeated in the Preface to the French edition of thePrinciples of Philosophy(ix-.
).
.Baillet (), ii.–. The illustrations had been printed to accompany the text
in the Latin edition, but it was felt that this was likely to be too expensive and to
cause further delays in the French edition. The printer therefore collected all the
illustrations at the back of the book. For the history of its printing, see van Otegem
(), i.–.
.Elizabeth to Descartes [May](v.).
.Forthese details, see Verbeek (),.
.Voetius (–), volume I, appeared onOctober. See Verbeek (),
–,for a summary of relevant theses about Descartes.
.The text was written in Latin and published by Louis Elzevier, in Amsterdam, as
Notae in Programma quoddam, sub finem Anni,inBelgio editum, cum hoc Titulo’,