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• - A brief discussion of the life and works of Rene Descartes, with links to electronic texts and additional information by Garth Kemerling.
  
• - Descartes' rationalism and Bacon's empiricism had to be combined to produce the modern scientific method.
  
• - A brief and useful overview of Descartes' life and thinking on Wikipedia.
  
• - Web directory of René Descartes, from projectlinks.org.
  
• - Part of lecture notes to a course on Later Medieval Philosophy by John Kilcullen at Macquarie University.
  
• - An overview of the significance of Descartes' philosophy.
  
• - Interpretations of René Descartes' ontology of necessities and possibilities; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by David Cunning.
  
• - Discussion of René Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan.
  
• - Article by Lex Newman from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
  
• - Class notes by Stephen Daniel, Texas A&M University.
  
• - Biography, method, philosophy and heritage. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  
• - Entry on Descartes from the Encyclopedia. Includes an assessment of his philosophy.
  
• - A biographical essay, some links and resources, and a sectionalized etext of his Discourse on the Method.