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Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of René Descartes, the seminal scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier, and spy who transformed seventeenth-century Europe and became the father of modern philosophy.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature;...
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