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Cover of Descartes' bones

Descartes' bones

by Russell Shorto

FaithReasonNew York Times reviewedNaturwissenschaftenReligionSkelettTroFörnuftet

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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