People/Characters: René Descartes

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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker
Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing Vol. 2 by Fred Van Lente
The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers by Stuart Hampshire
America's First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735--1918 by Richard Brookhisermentioned
Brief Lives by John Aubrey
Brief lives,: And other selected writings (The Cresset library) by John Aubrey
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by John Cottingham
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
Characters of the Reformation: historical portraits of 23 men and women and their place in the great religious revolution of the 16th century by Hilaire Belloc
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (P.S.) by Veronica Buckley
Correspondance avec Elisabeth et autres lettres by René Descartes
The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Cosmos: The World and the Glory of God by Louis Bouyer
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations" by Harry G. Frankfurt
Descartes by John G. Cottingham
Descartes (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Margaret Dauler Wilson
Descartes i Uppsala : striderna om "nya filosofien" 1663-1689 = The contentions about Cartesianism in Upsala 1663-1689 by Rolf Lindborg
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
Descartes's Method of Doubt by Janet Broughton
Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir D. Aczel
Descartes's Theory of Mind by Desmond Clarke
Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics by Roger Woolhouse
Descartes. In Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. by Rainer Specht
Descartes: A Collection of Critical Essays by Willis Doney
Descartes: A Study of His Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger
Descartes: His Life and Thought by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis
Descartes: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) (Great Philosophers (Routledge (Firm))) by John Cottingham
Descartes: The Life and times of a Genius by A. C. Grayling
Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry by Bernard Williams
Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by René Descartes
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That End by Stephan Talty
Essays on Descartes' Meditations by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
The Essential Descartes by Paul Strathern
The Examined Life: Readings from Western Philosophers from Plato to Kant by Stanley Rosen
A Fly on the Ceiling (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4) by Julie Glass
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue by Matthew L. Jones
History of Philosophy, Volume 4 (Modern Philosophy) by Frederick C. Copleston
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Ideas and Mechanism by Margaret Dauler Wilson
Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism by Tzvetan Todorov
Introducing Descartes by Dave Robinson
Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Bennett
Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Volume 2 by Jonathan Bennett
Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy by Robert E Bradley (ed)
Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought (SPEP) by James Barry
Men of mathematics by E.T. Bell
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean-François Revel
New Science by Giambattista Vico
Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie
Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians by Jane Muir
Philosophical Essays and Correspondence (Descartes) (Hackett Publishing Co.) by René Descartes
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 by René Descartes
The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to Rene Descartes by Andrea Nye
Principles of Descartes Philosophy by Benedictus de Spinoza
Problems of mind; Descartes to Wittgenstein by Norman Malcolm
René Descartes by Rolf Lindborg
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations (Routledge Philosophyguidebooks) by Gary Hatfield
Seventeenth-century rationalism: Bacon & Descartes by Norman F. Cantor
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard
Tables of knowledge : Descartes in Vermeer's studio by Harriet Amy Stone
Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau by Jacques Maritain
Tietoteoria by Markus Lammenranta
Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel by Jacob Bronowski
What Life Is and What Life Is For by Zeera P. Charnoe
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer

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René Descartes ( 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer.

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