Discours de la Méthode

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This is the true third edition, with the printing completed on April 28, 1668. It was shared between Michel Bobin, Théodore Girard and Nicolas Le Gras. Guibert lists another edition from 1668 published by Charles Angot (augmented with a treatise on mechanics and an abridged version of music), with a printing completed on May 8, 1668 (p. 19). The Discourse on the Method develops a manifesto of reason based on a fundamental presupposition: "the exercise of doubt" in all things. It is through this doubt that Descartes establishes the foundations of the new science. "Certainly one of the most important books in the history of human thought". Michel Bobin - Nicolas Le Gras edition. The book's inscription may possibly have been the sending of the book to Louis Legrand. Louis Legrand, SS (b. Lusigny-sur-Ouche, Burgundy, June 12, 1711, d. at Issy, Île-de-France, July 21, 1780) was a French Sulpician priest and theologian, and doctor of the Sorbonne.