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

a6 April 164.1] 
Ixviii. Descartes to Huygens 
167 
LXVIII. 
Descartes to Huygens. 
[26 April 1642.] 
Single sheet foolscap folded into two; top and edges gilt. Text on 1a and ib. 
The date is fixed by the indications furnished by Descartes himself 
(below, LXXI,/?. 172, h I ?ff 
Moniteur, 
C’ell le pere Mercenne qui me donne occafîon de vous 
faluer par letres, pour ce qu’il m’a enuoyé l’encloie comme 
vn appendix à celles qu’il me mande vous auoir défia 
5 eicrites à ce mefme voyafge. Il y a long tems que i’ay 
efperé de vous enuoyer ma refponfe au lefuite, a mais le 
Libraire eft fort lent ; et ce retardement me donnera occa- 
fion d’y inferer vn mot çn faneur de Voetius b qui a con 
damné ma Philofophie par vn iugement imprimé ibus le 
10 nom de l’Academie d’Vtrecht, qui mérité que vous le voyez, 
fi vous ne l’auez encore vû, c affin que vous publiez admirer 
la force des raifons qu’il contient. l’efpere qu’on iugera 
bien que mon deflèin n’eft pas de m’engager dans les 
a Bourdin, i. e. the seventh set of Replies. These were published 
together with the second edition of the Meditations, but with separate title- 
page and pagination. (The first sheets were sent to Mersenne in March, 
164a; see Corresp. CCLXX1II, vol. Ill, p. 54.3, 11. n-14.) 
b i. e. the Epistola ad P. Dinet. This continues the pagination of the 
Seventh Objections and Replies. 
c As a matter of fact, Huygens was fully informed (Briefais seling, 2960-1, 
vol. Ill, p. 270). He had already sent Mersenne c la censure de l’Academie 
d’Vtrecht en grosse lettre 5 and c la deflrence de M. Descartes soubs le nom 
de Regius contre Voetius 1 , and promised further to send Waterlaet’s 
Prodromes (below, LXX, p. 171, 1. 26 n.) as soon as it was published (it., 
2980, p. 277; cf. Baillet, vol. II, pp. 157-8, where for Christiaan read, as 
usual, Constantijn, Huygens).
	        
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