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A.C. GraylingPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edWalker & Co2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) B1873 .G7 2006 DUE 01-02-09 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier?and spy?Rene Descartes was one of the founders of the modern world. It was Descartes who identified the intellectual tools his peers needed to free themselves from the grip of religious authority and in doing so he founded modern philosophy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Reprint. Originally published: Descartes : the life of René Descartes and its place in his times. London : Free Press, 2005
- Examines the life of René Descartes, the seminal scientist , mathematician, traveler, soldier, and spy who transformed seventeenth-century Europe and became the father of modern philosophy
Contents
- Who was Descartes?
- The awakening
- A night of dreams - - The mystery of the rosy cross
- Nine years of travel
- Animals on the moon
- Francine
- The shape of snow
- Descartes Contra Voetius
- The princess of the passions - - The queen of winter
ISBN
- 080271501x
- 9780802715012
- 080271501x
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