Descartes
Subtitle: The Life and times of a Genius
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: October 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780802715012
Subjects: General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Philosophers; 1596-1650; 17th century; Biography; Descartes, Renâe,; France; Intellectual life
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.