RENÉ

DESCARTES'

MEDITATIONS

ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY,

IN WHICH THE EXISTENCE OF GOD,

and the immortality of the soul

are demonstrated. original Latin: "Renati Des-Cartes Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia, & animae immortalitas demonstratur." In this first edition, Descartes focuses on the "immortality of the soul," though in later editions, this was clarified to focus on the distinction between the human soul and the body.

PARIS,

Published by MICHEL SOLY, on the Rue Saint-Jacques

original: "viâ Iacobæâ." The Rue Saint-Jacques was the center of the book trade in 17th-century Paris.

at the sign of the Phoenix.

1641.

With Privilege, and the Approval of the Doctors.

original: "Cum Privilegio, & Approbatione Doctorum." This signifies that the work had been granted a royal license to be printed and had been reviewed and approved by the faculty of the Sorbonne, the theological authority in Paris.