Descartes: An Intellectual Biography.

Abstract

Preface Chronological Table Introduction 1. 'A Learned and Eloquent Piety' 2. An Education in Propriety, 1606-1618 3. The Apprenticeship with Beeckman, 1618-1619 4. The Search for Method, 1619-1625 5. The Paris Years, 1625-1628 6. A New Beginning, 1629-1630 7. A New System of the World, 1630-1633 8. The Years of Consolidation, 1634-1640 9. Natural Philosophy and Orthodoxy, 1640-1644 Biographical Sketches Select Bibliography Index