Discours de la Methode pour bien conduire sa Raison, & chercher la Verité dans les Sciences. Plus la Dioptrique, les Meteores, et la Geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete Methode
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First edition
Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. / First edition of the founding text of modern philosophy — containing the cogito and, in the Géométrie, the birth of analytic geometry, “the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences” Mill — in a contemporary Parisian armorial binding with the gilt arms of Louis Hesselin 1602–1662 , choreographer of the court ballets in which the young Louis XIV learned
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