  According to Anthony Wood, a contemporary of Le Grand’s and an historian at Oxford, Le Grand’s Institutio Philosophiae, secundum principia Domini Renati Descartes (1672), was a “must read” at Cambridge. (Wood, 1691, p. 620) Further attesting to the attention it attracted, Jean Robert Armogathe has detailed how the 1678 edition of this work came to be placed on the Index in 1709 because of its anti-scholastic arguments.(Armogathe, 2003) Le Grand also published an edition of Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique (1671), an enormously popular physics text, using Bonnet’s 1672 Latin translation with added commentary, Jacobi Rohaulti tractatus physicus (1682). In 1692, Samuel Clarke published his own Latin edition of the text, which incorporates his and Le Grand’s commentary in the form of footnotes. Clarke, an adherent of Newton’s physics, thought he could best propagate the new doctrine by publishing Rohault’s text with suggestive notes directed at the necessity of modifying Cartesian theory. According to the biographical preface to Clarke’s Works, at the time of his entrance to Cambridge in 1691, Rohault’s Traité was the standard modern scientific text, and Newton’s Principia (1687), had not yet been accepted: “The philosophy of Des Cartes was then the Established philosophy of that university, and the system of nature hardly allowed to be explained any otherwise than his principles … . The Great Sir Isaac Newton had indeed then published his Principia. But this book was but for the few.” Eventually Clarke’s translation of the Traité, which underwent four editions, became the new preferred Cambridge textbook, as the Cartesian physics gave way to that of Newton early in the eighteenth century.