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Descartes

by A. C. Grayling · January 2005

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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.

PhilosophersBiographyIntellectual lifeSciencePhilosophyHistoryNew York Times reviewed