Descartes' bones : a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason / Russell Shorto.
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TextPublication details: New York : Doubleday, c2008.Description: xx, 299 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780385517539
- 038551753X
- 194 SHO 22nd
- B1875 .S495 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and index.
The man who died -- Banquet of bones -- Unholy relics -- The misplaced head -- Cranial capacity -- Habeas corpus -- A modern face.
The best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World chronicles the more than three-hundred-year debate between religion and science as revealed through the long and momentous odyssey of the skeletal remains of French philosopher René Descartes, creator of the famous phrase "I think, therefore I am."
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