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This is the title page to René Descartes' Treatise on Method, with its three famous essays on Dioptrics, Meteorology, and Geometry. The third essay contains Descartes' treatment of analytic geometry as well as his theory of equations and his rule for finding the normal to a given curve.
A complete translation of the Treatise with the essays is in René Descartes, Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology, trans by Paul Olscamp (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merill Co., 1961).
Frank J. Swetz and Victor J. Katz, "Mathematical Treasures - Rene Descartes' Treatise on Method," Loci (January 2011)
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