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Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum" marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible. But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he...
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