The Discourse on Method

…in the publication of Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637; “Discourse on Method”) and took charge of soliciting the “Objections” appended to Descartes’s Meditationes (1641; “Meditations”). Other luminaries that Mersenne corresponded with, promulgated the ideas of, and mediated disputes among include Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, and