On a Letter From Descartes to Schooten Supposed to be From 1639 The aim of this paper is to suggest a new dating for a letter of Descartes to Schooten, alleged by Adam-Tannery to date from September of 1639. In this letter, Descartes answers questions dealing with Schooten's preparation of the 1649 Latin edition of La Géométrie, which concerns Descartes' solution of Pappus' problem. We propose to date this letter nearly a decade later, to March-April of 1648, by comparing on the one hand some letters of Descartes' correspondence and by using on the other a speculative argument based on the controversy between Descartes and Roberval over Pappus' problem.
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