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Descartes' bonesRussell Shorto

Descartes' bones

2008336 pages
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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."

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2009
    Vintage · 336 pages · 9780307275660
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780385528375
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Doubleday · 320 pages · 9780385517539
  • Other · English · 2014
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349140186
  • Other · English · 2013
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 336 pages · 9780349140193
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