René Descartes

(1596-1650)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Descartes, René, 1596-1650 LBT ID: ReDesca1650 VIAF ID: 41838958 LOC ID: n79061201	B/BAP: 1596-03-31 DIED: 1650-02-11
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French philosopher and mathematician, the author of Discours de la méthode (1637).
REFERENCES TO René Descartes: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 4 June 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 6 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 47 Life of Byron: 1822 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 80 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXIII. 1830 Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ n1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 9 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter IV. 1808. Found 1: ¶ 19