1. René Descartes, ‘Early Writings’, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume 1, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Duglad Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) 2.
2. Ibid., 3.
3. René Descartes, ‘Principles of Philosophy’, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume 1, Part 4, trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Duglad Murdoch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) 289.
4. Ibid., 279.
5. Otto Mayr, Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe (Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986) 54.