Paperback, 336 pages
Published Aug. 25, 2009 by Vintage.
Descartes' Bones
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Vintage)
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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."
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."
Subjects
- History -- World
- Nonfiction -- Philosophy -- History, 17th & 18th Century
- Nonfiction -- Philosophy -- Modern
- Religion & Spirituality -- Religious Studies -- Science & Religion