Note 8 — DES CARTES.
Reading edition
The life of Des Cartes has been written with great minuteness by M. Baillet author of the ‘Jugemens des Savans,’ &c., in two vols. 4to., Paris, 1690; abridged, Paris, 1693; translated into English the same year. This appears to have been the source from which all accounts have been derived.