Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto (Author)

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Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto (Author)ISBN: 9780385517539 Publisher : Doubleday, October 14, 2008 Hardcover, 320 pages On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman Ren 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. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much

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