The young Descartes : nobility, rumor, and war / Harold J. Cook.

"Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase I think, therefore I am. But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of his time. Far from it. As a young nobleman, Des...

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