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René Descartes (1596–1650)

Author of Meditations on First Philosophy

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Best known for the quote from his Meditations de prima philosophia, or Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), "I think therefore I am," philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes also devoted much of his time to the studies of medicine, anatomy and meteorology. Part of his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Searching for the Truth in the Sciences (1637) became the foundation for analytic geometry. Descartes is also credited with designing a machine to grind hyperbolic lenses, as part of his interest in optics. Rene Descartes was born in 1596 in La Haye, France. He began his schooling at a Jesuit college before going to Paris to study mathematics and to Poitiers in 1616 to study law. He served in both the Dutch and Bavarian military and settled in Holland in 1629. In 1649, he moved to Stockholm to be a philosophy tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden. He died there in 1650. Because of his general fame and philosophic study of the existence of God, some devout Catholics, thinking he would be canonized a saint, collected relics from his body as it was being transported to France for burial. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Meditations on First Philosophy 3,608 copies, 24 reviews
Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy 3,314 copies, 19 reviews
Discourse on Method (Author) 2,435 copies, 36 reviews
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics) 416 copies, 3 reviews
A Discourse on Method / Meditations on the First Principles / Principles… 392 copies, 1 review
Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings 347 copies
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2 343 copies
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 326 copies
The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza:… 297 copies, 1 review
Britannica Great Books: Descartes and Spinoza 286 copies
Philosophical Writings: Descartes 279 copies
The Geometry of René Descartes 243 copies, 2 reviews
Key Philosophical Writings (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) 216 copies, 2 reviews
The Passions of the Soul: Les Passions De Lame 195 copies, 1 review
The Essential Descartes 194 copies
Rules for the Direction of the Mind 166 copies, 3 reviews
Descartes Selections 133 copies
Principles of Philosophy 129 copies, 2 reviews
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3: The Correspondence 108 copies
Rules for the direction of the mind. Discourse on the method 106 copies
The Philosophical Works of Descartes 106 copies
Descartes: Philosophical Essays 104 copies
The Philosophical Works of Descartes (v. 1) 98 copies, 1 review
Philosophical Essays and Correspondence 77 copies, 2 reviews
Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology 70 copies
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia & René Descartes 66 copies
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Descartes : Oeuvres et lettres (Author) 60 copies, 2 reviews
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The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy 23 copies
Philosophical Letters 23 copies
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Descartes 21 copies
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1596-03-31
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René Descartes, the French philosopher, mathematician, and writer, is known as the father of modern philosophy and the father of analytical geometry. He was a pioneer of rationalist thought and a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 16-17th centuries in Europe; his influence is still felt today. He's perhaps best known in our day for the statement, "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), found in his Discourse on the Method (1637) and Principles of Philosophy (1644).
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