This Day in History: French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist Rene Descartes died on this day in 1650. He gave us the dictum Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am). He also had a fetish for cross-eyed women, and his books were placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books, though he was Catholic himself. He was rockstar popular in his time, so much so that his skeletal remains were taken and for 350 years they traveled the continent in one place after another.
See also Descartes, Spinoza & Philosophy - 230 Books on DVDrom (Rationalism, Hume, Kant)
See also Norman Smith's Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy 1903
Descartes, Spinoza & Philosophy - 230 Books on DVDrom (Rationalism, Hume, Kant)
Rene Descartes and the Soul by John Pancoast Gordy 1890
Descartes and the Pineal Gland By HP Blavatsky
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