Meditations on First Philosophy audiobook by Rene Descartes (1596-1650). Translated by John Veitch (1829-1894). After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy. That work, The World, was only published after Descartes' death. It seems that Descartes must have had this, in part at least, in mind when writing his more famous philosophical works. This is especially Read more [...]