THE year 1936 marked the tricentenary of Descartes' “Discourse on Method”, so Prof. Roth's study is both timely and welcome. A turning point in European thought, the “Discourse” has a story of its own ...

1637: Descartes publishes his Discourse on the Method for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, the source of the famous quote, "I think, therefore I am." He outlines his rules ...

If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal ...