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Pages: 338
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-25 - Publisher: Vintage

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Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport the
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Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Russell Shorto
Categories: History
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The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Jack Wolf
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-26 - Publisher: Penguin

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The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age
The Young Descartes
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Harold J. Cook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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René Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase “I think, therefore I am.” But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man,
Essays on Descartes
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Paul Hoffman
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated "T