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003    OCoLC 
005    20080823035847.0 
008    080116t20082008nyuaf    b    001 0 eng   
010      2008001932 
020    9780385517539 
020    038551753X 
035    (OCoLC)191758305 
035    (Sirsi) i9780385517539 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dBAKER|dBTCTA|dYDXCP 
049    CKEA 
050 00 B1875|b.S495 2008 
082 00 194|222 
100 1  Shorto, Russell. 
245 10 Descartes' bones :|ba skeletal history of the conflict 
       between faith and reason /|cRussell Shorto. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2008] 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    xx, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-287) and 
       index. 
505 0  The man who died -- Banquet of bones -- Unholy relics -- 
       The misplaced head -- Cranial capacity -- Habeas corpus --
       A modern face. 
520    On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the 
       Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and 
       controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold
       and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the 
       French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed 
       Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would
       this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the 
       remains of a philosopher who was hounded from country to 
       country on charges of atheism? Why would Descartes' bones 
       take such a strange, serpentine path over the next 350 
       years--a path intersecting some of the grandest events 
       imaginable: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, 
       the mind-body problem, the conflict between faith and 
       reason? Descartes? Bones is a historical detective story 
       about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and 
       turns leading up to the present day?to the science museum 
       in Paris where the philosopher?s skull now resides and to 
       the church a few kilometers away where, not long ago, a 
       philosopher-priest said a mass for his bones. 
600 10 Descartes, René,|d1596-1650. 
650  0 Faith. 
650  0 Reason. 
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994    92|bCKE