# Descartes' Bones

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- Book: [Descartes’ Bones](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-shorto/descartes-bones) ([Descartes’ Bones.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-shorto/descartes-bones.md))
- Authors: [Russell Shorto](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-shorto)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0727-566-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2009-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year...