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Nature 455, 863-864 (16 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455863a; Published online 15 October 2008
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Relics of the modern mind
Lisa Jardine1
Abstract
Our enduring search for meaning in life explains the reverence with which the bones of seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes were worshipped, suggests Lisa Jardine.
BOOK REVIEWED-Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
by Russell Shorto
Doubleday: 2008. 320 pp. $26
In spring 1666, the body of the French philosopher and scientist René Descartes was removed from its resting place in the undistinguished Adolf Fredriks churchyard in the northeast of Stockholm where it had been buried quietly 16 years earlier, and transported under cover of darkness to the residence of the French ambassador to Sweden, Hugues de Terlon. There, under de Terlon's reverential supervision, the coffin was opened.
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