13. HE TOTALLY HAD THE HOTS FOR CROSS-EYED WOMEN. In a letter to Queen Christina of Sweden, Descartes explained that he had a cross-eyed playmate as a child. “I loved a girl of my own age ...

When Queen Christina called in 1649, Descartes was flattered enough, or broke enough, to answer, even though he feared – quite rightly – that the Swedish winter (and 5 a.m. royal philosophy lessons) ...

Descartes died, of pneumonia, in Stockholm in 1650, at the age of fifty-three, having unwisely procured an invitation from Queen Christina of Sweden, and then even more unwisely accepted it.

Born in France in 1596, Rene Descartes was raised with ... Detail from Dispute of Queen Cristina Vasa* (left)* and René Descartes *(right) by Nils Forsberg (1842-1934) after Pierre-Louis Dumesnil ...

René Descartes liked to sleep until noon, which should make him appeal to many students. The story is commonly related that when he had to get up at dawn to tutor Queen Christina of Sweden ...

Rene Descartes (1596–1650) is the author of perhaps the most famous philosophical quote of all, cogito ergo sum, usually rendered as I think, therefore I am. There is however more to this quote ...

RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650), philosopher and mathematician, is of course universally, regarded as the inventor of the method of co-ordinates in geometry; hence the common name for them ...