Transcription of Discourse on the Method Meditations
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Discourse on the Method Meditations
R D was born at La Haye near Tours on March . He was educated at the Jesuit Coll ge de la Fl che in Anjou, and at the University of Poitiers, where he took a Licenciate in Law in . Two years later he entered the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau in Holland, and met a local schoolmaster, Isaac Beeckman, who fostered his interest in mathematics and physics. After further travels in Europe he settled in Paris in , and came into contact with scientists, theologians, and philosophers in the circle of the Minim friar Marin Mersenne.
essays on topics in which he had made discoveries. In his Meditations appeared, setting out the metaphysical underpinningsof his physical theories; these were accompanied by objections writ-ten by contemporary philosophers, and Descartes’s replies to them.His writings provoked controversy in both France and Holland,where
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