Letter

 1 IV  |        and knowledge, and to whom Descartes had dedicated his Philosophical
 2 XIII|       word in their writings. Our Descartes, born to discover the errors
 3 XIV |                    Letter XIV: On Descartes And Sir Isaac Newton~A Frenchman
 4 XIV |            nor on that of matter. Descartes, as I observed in my last,
 5 XIV |       good proof of the contrary.~Descartes asserts farther, that extension
 6 XIV |       this gentleman had compared Descartes to Sir Isaac, the whole
 7 XIV |          other reason but because Descartes was a Frenchman.~It must
 8 XIV |   philosophy.~Nature had indulged Descartes with a shining and strong
 9 XIV |          studies in full liberty.~Descartes was very right, for his
10 XIV |         obliged to leave Utrecht. Descartes was injuriously accused
11 XIV |          crowns. Upon these hopes Descartes returned to France; paid
12 XIV |           earth's motion.~At last Descartes was snatched from the world
13 XIV |          then we must not censure Descartes.~The opinion that generally
14 XIV |        few people in England read Descartes, whose works indeed are
15 XIV |           every advantage, whilst Descartes is not indulged a single
16 XIV |           presumed to assert that Descartes was not a great geometrician.
17 XIV |           in their master's face. Descartes extended the limits of geometry
18 XIV | innumerable errors in the rest of Descartes' works.~Geometry was a guide
19 XIV |      justly said, that the man of Descartes is, in fact, that of Descartes
20 XIV |    Descartes is, in fact, that of Descartes only, very different from
21 XIV |       weapons against himself. If Descartes did not pay in good money,
22 XIV |          conducted us through it.~Descartes gave sight to the blind.
23 XV  |          the earth.~The system of Descartes, explained and improved
24 XV  |       vacuum, which Aristotle and Descartes had banished from the world.~
25 XV  |        the moon, and sent back by Descartes above the sphere of Saturn,
26 XVI |       Kepler, by his calculation, Descartes (at least, in his dioptrics),
27 XVI |       effect of the sun and rain. Descartes gained immortal fame by
28 XVI |       telescopes, can be carried.~Descartes, from a noble confidence
29 XVI |           almost first found out; Descartes, I say, hoped to discover
30 XVII|       trace its various windings.~Descartes got the start of him also