Time to Eat the Dogs

A Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration

Episode 29: Descartes, Traveler

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Hal Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as he did studying philosophy. Cook is John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War out this year with University of Chicago Press.

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Harold Cook

 

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