Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto
Author:Russell Shorto
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780385528375
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008-10-13T16:00:00+00:00
The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating Descartes’ genius and mourning the scattering of his remains.
An eighteenth-century depiction of the court of Queen Christina in Stockholm by Pierre Louis Dumesnil. Descartes is standing to the right; the Queen is seated opposite him.
A seventeenth-century image showing The Dam, the central square in Amsterdam, shortly after the time Descartes lived there.
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