Author: Descartes, Rene´ (1596-1650)
Title: DISCOURS DE LA METHODE POUR BIEN CONDUIRE SA RAISON, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus la Dioptrique et les Meteores .. Reueue¨ & corrige´e en cette derniere edition.
Description: Paris, Chez M. Bobin & N. Le Gras 1668 Titlepage vignettes, several full-page diagrams + text illustrations throughout. . Quarto (23x17cm) contemporary half calf (spine restored, front joint cracked, scratched & rather scuffed), [4], 413, [31]pp. Page 121 mis-numbered as 221, p.128 as 228 and p.334 as 314. Title vignette. *Fourth and Final edition (simultaneously published by Girard in Paris). Includes 3 books, Les Meteores, Dioptrique, Discourses De La Methode, last of which contains Descartes' 1st use of famous phrase "Cogito, Ergo Sum". Also contains his formulation of Cartesian Coordinates, as well as observations and experiments on weather phenomena.

Keywords: Philosophy meteorology science Descartes


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