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 ...

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 ...

Eventually, Descartes found refuge with Christina, Queen of Sweden, who was a fan of his ideas about science and love. She invited him to her court with the promises of setting up a new scientific ...

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 ...

A long-lost letter by René Descartes has come to light at Haverford College, where it had lain buried in the archives for more than a century, and the discovery could revolutionize our view of ...

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 ...