Descartes: A Biography

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well enough who you are writing about. I expect that you will see him in Paris

soon, because of his father’s death.’

.Descartes to Br ́egy,December(v.–). It remains unclear whether these

verses were composed by Descartes or by someone else.

.Descartes to Picot,December(v.–).

.His work was examined subsequently in a book written by Father Francis Xavier

Aynscom,Francisci Xaverii Aynscom, e Societate Jesu, Expositio et Deductio geome-

tria quadraturarum circuli R. P. Gregorii a Sancto Vincentio ejusdem Societatis, cui

praemittitur liber de Natura et affectionibus rationum ac proportionum geometricarum

(Antwerp,).

.Descartes to an unidentified correspondent, possibly Van Schooten,/

(v.).

.Descartes to Br ́egy,January(v.). Chanut returned to Stockholm on

December and had an audience with the queen onDecember. Descartes

mentions that he has had only one audience with the queen since then.

.Saumaise to Br ́egy,January(quoted in v.). His father had been attempt-

ing for some time to join his son in Stockholm, and he arrived there eventually in

August(v.).

.Descartes to Picot,January(v.).

.Descartes to Elizabeth,February(v.).

.Les dernieres heures de Monsieur Rivet().

.Ibid.,.

.Ibid.,.

.Baillet (), ii..According to Baillet, Chanut fell ill onJanuary and had

recovered byJanuary.

.Chanut to M. de Brienne,February,and Chanut to Elizabeth,February

(v.–).

.Baillet (), ii..

.Descartes (), vol.(Preface), and Baillet (), ii..

.Descartes (), Preface to vol., quoted in v..

.Saumaise to Br ́egy,February(v.).

.Chanut to Elizabeth,February(v.).

.Chanut to Elizabeth,April(v.–).

.The poems were composed on,,,, andMarch.Iam indebted

to Erik-Jan Bos for this information.

.Epitaph for Descartes by Christian Huygens, written to his brother Constantijn,

March(v.).

.Chanut to P ́erier,March(v.).

.For the history of these papers, see the Introduction to Descartes (),

pp. xvi–xxi.

.The coronation was on October/,.

.Arckenholtz (), vol.,–(note).

.Baillet (: ii,)reports that the French ambassador to Sweden kept a bone

from his finger as a souvenir, and Arckenholtz (:iv.)reports that Isaac