Cook, a Brown University professor specializing in the history of medicine, shifts focus to examine the early years of French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) in an intriguing but overly ...

C’est le privilège du vrai génie, et surtout du génie qui ouvre une carrière, de faire impunément de grandes fautes. It is the privilege of true genius, and above all genius that opens up a new path, ...