Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 038551753X | 2008 | 320 pages | 2 MB / 2 MB
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France.