# Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient

Date: 1637

## The fact

In 1637 Descartes published the Discourse on the Method as a public French treatise. It is one book, not a unique cogito-coefficient and not later English autograph. René Descartes's documented role is: He published the Discourse at Leiden. He did not typeset later Gutenberg English. One book plus appendices stored separately.

## Context

Jan Maire is the Leiden printer neighbourhood. Sharing that imprint is required. The Geometry appendix is a different instrument. The setting of Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient is the public file around 1637-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient. Naming René Descartes does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1637-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, Discourse on the Method at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Project Gutenberg — Discourse on the Method as later English carrier at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59 (Project Gutenberg). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, Discourse on the Method (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Project Gutenberg — Discourse on the Method as later English carrier (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59; Project Gutenberg).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Descartes, Discourse on the Method (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Improving path from Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient on 1637-01-01. A public method-treatise is an education path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient under 1637-01-01 for René Descartes. Established: a sourced public record of Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient under 1637-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not invent a unique cogito coefficient. Geometry, Dioptrics, Meteors are neighbouring appendices. Mixed effects of Discourse on the Method (1637) is a public French treatise of method, one book not a unique cogito-coefficient are separate paths.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- René Descartes: https://factrail.ai/people/rene-descartes

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/des-discourse-1637