Ben-Yami, HanochStrazzoni, AndreaSgarbi, Marco2024-05-062024-05-062023979-12-215-0169-810.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/14278Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in Rules for the Direction of the Mind; his first suggestions there to apply this kind of representation-by-correspondence in the scientific inquiry of colours; and, finally, the transfer of the idea to the theory of perception in The World.engCC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/René DescartesRepresentationGeometryPerceptionColourBook chapter