Descartes' Bones

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  • Descartes' Bones Book Detail

  • Author : Russell Shorto
  • Release Date : 2009-08-25
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 338
  • ISBN 13 : 0307275663
  • File Size : 84,84 MB

Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto PDF Summary

Book Description: Sixteen years after René 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 continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters. But as Russell Shorto shows in this deeply engaging book, Descartes' bones also played a role in some of the most momentous episodes in history, which are also part of the philosopher's metaphorical remains: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, and the earliest debates between reason and faith. Descartes' Bones is a flesh-and-blood story about the battle between religion and rationalism that rages to this day. A New York Times Notable Book

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