Descartes' Bones: a Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto

Descartes' Bones: a Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Russell Shorto with Paul Hecht (Narrator)

9 hours, 15 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

fiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential & controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a lonely death far from home. 16 years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly u...

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