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Books about René Descartes -- Books by René Descartes

Books about René Descartes:

• Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Dennis L. Sepper (HTML at UC Press)
• A Voyage to the World of Cartesius: Written Originally in French, and Now Translated Into English (London: T. Bennet, 1692), by Gabriel Daniel, trans. by Thomas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• La Liberté Chez Descartes et la Théologie (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1913), by Étienne Gilson
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• Le Pensée Religieuse de Descartes (Etudes de Philosophie Medievale #6, in French; Paris: J. Vrin, 1924), by Henri Gouhier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes and His School (translated from the third and revised German edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887), by Kuno Fischer, ed. by Noah Porter, trans. by John P. Gordy (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes and His School (translated from the third and revised German edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890), by Kuno Fischer, ed. by Noah Porter, trans. by John P. Gordy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Conceptions of Mind: Their Bearing on the Denaturalization of the Mind in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Alejandro A. Jascalevich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (in English and German), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1914), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
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  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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• Francisci à Schooten Principia Matheseos Universalis, seu Introductio ad Geometriae Methodum Renati Des Cartes (in Latin; Leiden: Ex Officinâ Elseviriorum, 1651), by Frans van Schooten, ed. by Erasmus Bartholin
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Books by René Descartes:

• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Discourse on the Method, trans. by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (HTML at sdsu.edu)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, trans. by John Veitch (Gutenberg text)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650, contrib.: French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes (Harvard Classics v34; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Thomas Hobbes
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• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: The Geometry of René Descartes, trans. by David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham (PDF at djm.cc)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Les Principes de la Philosophie (translated into French; Paris: D. Horthemels, 1724)
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• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Meditations on First Philosophy, trans. by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (HTML at archive.org)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Meditations on First Philosophy (translation c2012), trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Meditations on the First Philosophy, trans. by John Veitch (HTML at Wright)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Musicae Compendium (in Latin; Amsterdam: Typ. Blaviana, 1683)
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• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: The Philosophical Works of Descartes (2 volumes; New York: Dover Publications, c1955), trans. by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane and G. R. T. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650: Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, trans. by John Veitch (Gutenberg text)

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