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Descartes's Secret Notebook: a True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir D. Aczel

Descartes's Secret Notebook: a True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

Amir D. Aczel

273 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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,...

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