Periodic Reporting for period 1 - READESCARTES (Reading Descartes: A Reassessment of the Shaping and Transmission of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century)

The objective of READESCARTES (March 2021–February 2023) is to provide the first in-depth study of the handwritten commentaries on the treatises of René Descartes (1696–1650). This study is important because such sources had a crucial role in shaping the intellectual...