Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in 1641, is perhaps the most widely studied philosophy text in the English-speaking world and inaugurates many of the key themes that have remained central to philosophy ever since. Descartes expresses himself with great lucidity and elegance, and there is enormous interest, even for those who are not fluent in Latin, in seeing how the famous concepts and arguments of his great masterpiece unfold. John Cottingham's acclaimed translation of the work is presented here in a facing-page edition alongside Descartes's original Latin text. Students of classical philosophy have long had the benefit of the facing-page dual-language editions and the availability of such a resource for the early modern period is long overdue. This invaluable dual-language format is now made available for one of the definitive philosophical texts of the early modern period and of Western philosophy as a whole.