Full text: Correspondence of Descartes and Constantyn Huygens 1635 - 1647

Ixviia. Descartes to Huygens [31 j an. 164.x 
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priibnnier qui eil entre mes mains, & que ie deiîre traiter le plus 
courtoiièment que ie pourray ; mais ie le trouue iî coupable, que ie 
ne voy aucun moyen de le fanner; i’aifèmble tous les iours mon 
conièil de guerre fur ce iliiet, & i’eipere que dans peu de tems vous 
en pourrez voir le procès. 45 
Peut-eftre que ces guerres fcholaftiques feront caufe que mon 
Monde iè fera bientoil voir au monde, & ie croy que ce feroit des 
à prêtent, fi non que ie veux auparauant luy faire aprendre à parler 
latin ; & ie le feray nommer ilimma Philofophiæ, affin qu’il f’intro- 
duife plus aytement en la conuerfation des gens de l’efchole, qui *o 
maintenant le pertecutent & tafchent à l’étoufter auant fa naiflànce, 
aufTy bien les Miniftres que les lefuites. M. de Pollot vous en peut 
dire des nouuelles, de ce qu’il a vu à Vtrecht a où il a aydé à combatre 
pour moy. le fuis, 
Moniteur, S S 
Voflre très humble 
& très obeiflant teruiteur, 
Des Cartes. 
D’Endegeeil, ce 31 lanuier 164.1. 
a For the complete story of this affair, see Vie, book IV, chapter 3. Very 
briefly its course was as follows : 
Regius (Henri de Roy, 159 8-1679), Professor of medicine and botany at 
the University of Utrecht and at that time an ardent disciple of Descartes, 
had published certain theses, based on Cartesian principles, in December, 
164.1, which had aroused the suspicions of Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676), 
protestant minister, Professor of theology, and Rector for the year of the 
University. Voetius obtained rescripts from both City and University 
authorities condemning the new philosophy (Corresp. CCLXXIV, vol. Ill, 
pp. 550-1, with M. Adam’s notes) in March, 164/2,. Descartes, who had 
helped Regius], to draw up his defence (Corresp. CCLXV-VI), replied, giving 
his own account of the dispute, in the Epistola ad P. Dinet appended to the 
second edition of the Meditations, May, 1641, which Voetius then induced 
Martin Schook, a former pupil, now Professor at Groningen, to undertake 
to refute in the work entitled c Philosophia Cartesiana sive Admiranda 
Methodus’ (below, LXXVIII, p. 184, 1. 3 n.).
	        
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