Rene Descartes triggered a revolution in thinking, Cartesianism, and attracted many followers and he became a personage. His thinking was vigorously opposed by the Church. And Louis XIV in 1671 forbade the teaching of Cartesianism at the U of Paris. This is the curious story about what happened to his remains and where some of them are today.
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Posted on Thursday January 1, 2015
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