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CARTESIANISM . Bi8L10GRAPHY -I . See also:Editions and See also:Translations.--The collected See also:works of See also:Descartes were published in Latin in 8 vols. at See also:Amsterdam (1670-1683), in 7 vols. at See also:Frankfort (16971 and in 9 vols. byElzevir See also:Germany . (1713) ; in See also:French in 13 vols . (See also:Paris, 1724-1729), republished by See also:Victor See also:Cousin (Paris, 1824-1826) in I1 vols., and again under the authority of the See also:minister of public instruction by C . See also:Adam and P . Tannery (1897 See also:foil.) . Theseinclude his so-called See also:posthumous works . The Rules for the Direction of the Mind, The See also:Search for Truth by the See also:Light of Nature, and other unimportant fragments, published (in Latin) in 1701 . In 1859-186o Foucher de Careil published in two parts some unedited writings of Descartes from copies taken by See also:Leibnitz from the See also:original .papers . Six editions of the See also:Opera philosophica appeared at Amsterdam between 165o and 1678; a two-See also:volume edition at See also:Leipzig in 1843; there are also French editions, CEuvres philosophiques, by A . See also:Garnier, 3 vols .
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