Delphi Collected Works of René Descartes by Descartes, René -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CONTENTS Rule I Rule II Rule III Rule IV Rule V Rule VI Rule VII Rule VIII Rule IX Rule X Rule XI Rule XII Rule XIII Rule XIV Rule XV Rule XVI Rule XVII Rule XVIII Rule XIX Rule XX Rule XXI

THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH

CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE TO ‘THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH.’ THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH BY THE LIGHT OF NATURE.

THE WORLD

CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE On the Difference Between Our Sensations and the Things That Produce Them CHAPTER TWO In What the Heat and Light of Fire Consists CHAPTER THREE On Hardness and Liquidity CHAPTER FOUR On the Void, and How it Happens that Our Senses Are Not Aware of Certain Bodies CHAPTER FIVE On the Number of Elements and on Their Qualities CHAPTER SIX Description of a New World, and on the Qualities of the Matter of Which it is Composed CHAPTER SEVEN On the Laws of Nature of this New World CHAPTER EIGHT On the Formation of the Sun and the Stars of the New World CHAPTER NINE On the Origin and the Course of the Planets and Comets in General; and of Comets in Particular CHAPTER TEN On the Planets in General, and in Particular on the Earth and Moon CHAPTER ELEVEN On Weight CHAPTER TWELVE On the Ebb and Flow of the Sea CHAPTER THIRTEEN On Light CHAPTER FOURTEEN On the Properties of Light CHAPTER FIFTEEN That the Face of the Heaven of that New World Must Appear to Its Inhabitants Completely Like That of Our World ENDNOTES

DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD

CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V PART VI

MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY

CONTENTS LETTER OF DEDICATION PREFACE TO THE READER SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING MEDITATIONS. Meditation I Meditation II Meditation III Meditation IV Meditation V Meditation VI

SELECTIONS FROM ‘THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY’

CONTENTS LETTER OF THE AUTHOR PART I. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. PART II. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MATERIAL THINGS. PART III. OF THE VISIBLE WORLD. PART IV. OF THE EARTH.

NOTES DIRECTED AGAINST A CERTAIN PROGRAMME

CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE TO THE NOTAE IN PROGRAMMA. RENÉ DESCARTES: NOTES DIRECTED AGAINST A CERTAIN PROGRAMME PUBLISHED IN BELGIUM AT THE END OF THE YEAR 1647 UNDER THIS TITLE

PASSIONS OF THE SOUL

CONTENTS PREFATORY NOTE TO ‘THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL’. PART FIRST. OF THE PASSIONS IN GENERAL, AND INCIDENTALLY OF THE WHOLE NATURE OF MAN. PART SECOND. OF THE NUMBER AND ORDER OF THE PASSIONS AND AN EXPOSITION OF THE SIX PRIMITIVE PASSIONS. THE ORDER AND ENUMERATION OF THE PASSIONS. PART THIRD. OF PARTICULAR PASSIONS.

The Biographies RENÉ DESCARTES by William Wallace BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: RENÉ DESCARTES by Clodius Piat The Delphi Classics Catalogue

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