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Descartess Secret Notebook Amir D Aczel Aczel Amir D

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Descartess Secret Notebook Amir D Aczel Aczel Amir D
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Publisher: Crown/Archetype
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 3.28 MB
Pages: 289
Author: Amir D Aczel [Aczel, Amir D]
ISBN: 9780307494801, 0307494802
Language: English
Year: 2009

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Descartess Secret Notebook Amir D Aczel Aczel Amir D by Amir D Aczel [aczel, Amir D] 9780307494801, 0307494802 instant download after payment.

René Descartes (1596--1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum" marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.

But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes's death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, moved to Paris in search of this notebook--and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes's. Liebniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages--which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Liebniz's hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes's notebook, which has disappeared.

Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions lead Amir Aczel and the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.

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