Works by Regius

• 1640a. Disputatio medico-physiologica pro sanguinis circulatione, Utrecht: Aeg. Roman; reprinted in AT III, 727–34.
• 1640b. Spongia qua eluuntur sordes Animadversionum, quas Jacobus Primirosius, Doctor Medicus, adversus Theses pro Circulatione sanguinis in Academia Ultrajectina disputatas nuper edidit, Leiden: W. Christiaens. [Available online.]
• 1641a. Physiologia, sive Cognitio sanitatis. Tribus disputationibus in Academia Ultrajectina publice proposita, Utrecht: Aeg. Roman; reprinted in Bos 2002, 195–248.
• 1641b. Disputatio medica prima [–tertia] De illustribus aliquot quaestionibus physiologicis, Utrecht: Aeg. Roman.
• 1642. Responsio, sive Notae in Appendicem ad Corollaria Theologico-Philosophica Viri Reverendi et Celeberrimi D. Gisberti Voetii, SS. Theologiae Doctoris et Professoris, et in Academiâ Ultrajectina p.t. Rectoris Magnifici, verbique Divini in Ecclesia Ministri, Utrecht: J. van Doorn. [Available online.]
• 1646. Fundamenta physices, Amsterdam: L. Elsevier. [Available online.]
• 1647a. Fundamenta medica, Utrecht: Th. van Ackersdijck. [Available online.]
• 1647b. Medicatio viri cachexia leucophlegmatica affecti. Corollaria, Utrecht: J. van Noortdyck.
• 1648. Brevis explicatio mentis humanae, sive animae rationalis: ubi explicatur, quid sit, & quid esse possit, Utrecht: Th. van Ackersdijck and G. van Zijll. [Available online.]
• 1650. De Affectibus animi dissertatio, Utrecht: Th. van Ackersdijck. [Available online.]
• 1654. Philosophia naturalis, Amsterdam: L. Elsevier (2^nd enlarged edn. of Regius 1646). [Available online.]
• 1657. Brevis explicatio mentis humanae, sive animae rationalis: antea publico examini proposita, et deinde operâ Henrici Regii Ultrajectini nonnihil dilucidata, et à notis Cartesii vindicata, Utrecht: Th. van Ackersdijck and G. van Zijll (2^nd enlarged edn. of Regius 1648). [Available online.]
• 1661a. Philosophia naturalis, Amsterdam: L. and D. Elsevier (3^rd edn. of Regius 1646). [Available online.]
• 1661b. Epistola Henrici Regii ad V. Cl. Clerselierum JCtum Parisiensem, Utrecht: Th. van Ackersdijck and G. van Zijll. [Available online.]
• 1687. Philosophie naturelle, Utrecht: R. van Zyll (French translation of Regius 1661a). [Available online.]

See also Erik-Jan Bos (ed.), The Correspondence between Descartes and Henricus Regius, Utrecht: ZENO, The Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute of Philosophy, 2002. This includes significant changes to the correspondence as published in Descartes 1964–76. [Available online.]

Related Early Works

• Andreae, Tobias, 1653. Brevis Replicatio Reposita Brevi Explicationi Mentis Humanae, sive animae Rationalis, D. Henrici Regii, Medici ac Philosophi Ultrajectini, Amsterdam: L. Elzevier. [Available online.] (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1648. Notae in Programma quoddam, sub finem Anni 1647 in Belgio editum, cum hoc titulo: Explicatio Mentis humanae, sive Animae rationalis, ubi explicatur quid sit, & quid esse posset, Amsterdam: L. Elzevier. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, [AT]. Oeuvres de Descartes, revised edition., Ch. Adam and P. Tannery (eds.), 12 volumes. Paris: Vrin/CNRS, 1964–76.
• Descartes, René, [CB]. Descartes’ Conversation with Burman, trans. J. Cottingham. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, The Correspondence of René Descartes 1643, T. Verbeek, E.-J. Bos, and J. van de Ven (eds.), Utrecht: Zeno Institute of Philosophy, 2003. [This is the first volume of a projected complete edition of Descartes’ correspondence.] [Available online.] (Scholar)
• Medical Dissertations 1636–60, A compilation at the British Library in which some of Regius’ disputations are bound. (Scholar)
• Schoock, Martinus, 1643. Admiranda Methodus novae philosophiae Renati des Cartes, Utrecht: J. van Waesberge. [Available online.] French trans. in Verbeek 1988, 157–320. (Scholar)
• Voetius, Gisbertus, 1648–69. Selectarum Disputationum Theologicarum, 5 volumes, Utrecht and Amsterdam: J. van Waesberge. (Scholar)

Modern works

• Alexandru, Vlad, 2013. ‘Regius and Gassendi on the Human Soul,’ Intellectual History Review, 23: 1–20. (Scholar)
• Bitbol-Herpéries, Annie, 1993. ‘Descartes et Regius: leur pensée médicale,’ in Verbeek 1993, 47–68. (Scholar)
• Bellis, Delphine, 2013. ‘Empiricism without Metaphysics: Regius’ Cartesian Natural Philosophy,’ in Cartesian Empiricisms, M. Dobre and T. Nyden (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 151–83. (Scholar)
• Bos, Erik-Jan, 1999. ‘Descartes’s Lettre Apologétique aux Magistrats d’Utrecht: New Facts and Materials,’ Journal of the History of Philosophy, 37: 415–33. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013. ‘Henricus Regius et les limites de la philosophie Cartésienne,’ in Qu’est-ce qu’être cartésien?, D. Kolesnik-Antoine (ed.), Lyon: ENS Editions. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015. ‘Regius and the diffusion of Cartesianism in the early 1640s –– and beyond’,’ in Les Pays-Bas aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Nouveaux regards, C. Secretan and D. Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Paris: Champion. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. ‘Descartes and Regius on the Pineal Gland and Animal Spirits, and A Letter of Regius on the True Seat of the Soul,’ in Gaukroger and Wilson 2017, 95–111. (Scholar)
• Clarke, Desmond M., 2006. Descartes: A Biography, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010. ‘The Physics and Metaphysics of the Mind: Descartes and Regius,’ in Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, J. Cottingham and P. Hacker (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 187–207. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. ‘Hypotheses,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, D. Clarke and C. Wilson (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 249–71. (Scholar)
• Farina, Paolo, 1975. ‘Sulla formazione scientifica di H. Regius: Santorio e il ‘De statica medicina’,’ Rivista Critica de Storia della Filosofia, 33: 363–99. (Scholar)
• Fowler, Colin F., 1999. Descartes on the Human Soul. Philosophy and the Demands of Christian Doctrine, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
• Gariepy, Thomas P., 1991. Mechanism without Metaphysics: Henricus Regius and the Establishment of Cartesian Medicine, PhD dissertation, Yale University, New Haven: Yale University. (Scholar)
• Gaukroger, Stephen, and Catherine Wilson (eds.), 2017. Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Hallyn, Ferdinand, 2005. ‘La Philosophia naturalis de Regius et l’écriture athée,’ Libertinage et philosophie au XVIIe siècle, 9: 37–46. (Scholar)
• Kolesnik-Antoine, Delphine, 2013. ‘Le rôle des expériences dans la physiologie d’Henricus Regius: les ‘pierres lydiennes’ du cartésianisme’, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 1: 125–45. (Scholar)
• Olivo, Gilles, 1993. ‘L’homme en personne,’ in Verbeek 1993, 69–91.
• Schmalz, Tad M., 1997. ‘Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius,’ Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy, 2: 33–73. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018. ‘The Curious Case of Henricus Regius,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, S. Nadler, T.M. Schmaltz, and D. Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 434–49. (Scholar)
• Verbeek, Theo, 1988. La Querelle d’Utrecht, Paris: Les impressions nouvelles. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992. Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637–1650, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1993. Descartes et Regius: Autour de l’Explication de l’esprit humain, Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994. ‘Regius’s Fundamenta Physices,’ Journal of the History of Ideas, 55: 533–51. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000. ‘The Invention of Nature: Descartes and Regius,’ in Descartes’ Natural Philosophy, S. Gaukroger, J. Shuster and J. Sutton (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 149–67. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. ‘Henricus Regius (Hendrik de Roy) (1598-1679),’ in The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, L. Nolan (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 641–44. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. ‘Regius and Descartes on the Passions,’ in Gaukroger and Wilson 2017, 164–76. (Scholar)
• Vrijer, M.J.A. de, 1917. Henricus Regius: Een ‘cartesiaansch’ hoogleraar aan de Utrechtsche hoogeschool, The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Wilson, Catherine, 2000. ‘Descartes and the Corporeal Mind: Some Implications of the Regius Affair,’ in Descartes’ Natural Philosophy, S. Gaukroger et al. (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 659–79. (Scholar)