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The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes

The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes( )
Author: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Elisabeth
Descartes, René
Translator: Shapiro, Lisa
Series title:The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-20441-3
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $73.00USD $73.00
Book Description:

Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and René Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters--thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for anyone interested in...
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Book Details
Pages:280
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.24 x 9.204 x 0.903 Inches
Book Weight:1.109 Pounds
Author Biography
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Elisabeth (Author)
Best known for the quote from his Meditations de prima philosophia, or Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), "I think therefore I am," philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes also devoted much of his time to the studies of medicine, anatomy and meteorology. Part of his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Searching for the Truth in the Sciences (1637) became the foundation for analytic geometry. Descartes is also credited with designing a machine to grind hyperbolic lenses, as part of his interest in optics.

Rene Descartes was born in 1596 in La Haye, France. He began his schooling at a Jesuit college before going to Paris to study mathematics and to Poitiers in 1616 to study law. He served in both the Dutch and Bavarian military and settled in Holland in 1629. In 1649, he moved to Stockholm to be a philosophy tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden. He died there in 1650. Because of his general fame and philosophic study of the existence of God, some devout Catholics, thinking he would be canonized a saint, collected relics from his body as it was being transported to France for burial.

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