Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Russell Shorto

336 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Sixteen years after Ren Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a contine...

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