Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles René Descartes was an artist who was born in 1596. The artist's work has been ...

Having divided human beings into two parts—the “thinking thing” (res cogitans) and “extended thing” (res extensa)—René ...

In a 1646 letter to René Descartes (1596–1650), Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–80) defends a ruler's use of extreme violence on pragmatic grounds. When the people are negatively disposed toward ...