'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read only the Passions ..."
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book
Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read only the Passions ..."
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Boyle Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Butler, Hume, Bentham, Descartes and Kant, and discussed such questions as the Origin of Evil, the Derivation of Moral Sentiments, Prayer and the Personality of God.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: The Apostles Print: Book
'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a difficult book of Descartes at a single sitting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book