La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle

aka Inquisitio Veritatis per Lumen Naturale

The Search for Truth by Natural Light

Author

René Descartes

Language

French, Neo-Latin

Year

1683

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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The Search for Truth by Natural Light is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘honnête homme’ and ‘curiosité’.” It was written in French but that was lost around 1700 and remained lost until a partial copy was discovered in G.W. Leibniz's papers in Hanover in 1908 and published in the Adam-Tannery edition of Descartes's works and correspondence. A Latin translation, Inquisitio Veritatis per Lumen Naturale, was published in 1683 as part of Renati Des-Cartes Musicae compendium and again in 1701 as part of R. Des-Cartes Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica ; it was also included in a Dutch translation of a collection of letters from Descartes published in 1684 by J.H. Glazemaker.