Relics of the modern mind

Lisa Jardine
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Lisa Jardine: Lisa Jardine is director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters and centenary professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK. Her latest book is Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory.

Nature, 2008, vol. 455, issue 7215, 863-863

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.

Date: 2008
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