Descartes' bones

a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason

Follows the trail of the bones of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes after they were dug up sixteen years after his death in Stockholm by French ambassador Hughes de Terlon and transported to France, and provides information about the life of Descartes, his controversial ideas, and why his bones were coveted by diverse people throughout the generations.

Doubleday
2008
9780385517539
book

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