Descartes' bones a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason
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...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York [u.a.]
Doubleday
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 299 p., [8] p. of plates ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780385517539 |