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Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Renã© Descartes and Translated By Ian Johnston and Illustrated By Ian Crowe and Ian Crowe
Discourse on Method, published in 1637, is one of the most important works in the history of modern science. In this slim book, Descartes ostensibly sets out to inform the reader, in a modest, informal, and very readable style, of his own educational development and pursuit of knowledge. However, by the end he has set down a revolutionary new program for investigating the truth and laid the preliminary groundwork for Western civilization s most important and most influential achievement, modern science. He does this by launching a famous thought experiment, in which he places everything in doubt, rejects all received knowledge, and searches for a single certain truth from which he can begin. This process leads to his famous claim I think; therefore, I am. Once that is established, Descarte...