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

by René Descartes

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First edition

Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. / First edition of Descartes's first and most famous work — the founding text of modern philosophy and, in its third essay, of modern mathematics. Published anonymously at Leiden in 1637 after the condemnation of Galileo had caused Descartes to withhold his Traité du Monde. The Discours serves as preface to three essays: La Dioptrique with the sine law of refraction independently of Snellius ;

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