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« The Art of Letter Writing
Rich Trove of Autograph Letters Featured »

Descartes in the Press

Excerpt of letter from René Descartes to Marin Mersenne, 27 May 1641.

Last week’s announcement that an unknown and stolen letter by René Descartes had been discovered in Haverford College Special Collections and will be returned to France has received quite a bit of attention in the press.  Below is a list of original articles that have appeared in English.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Guardian

Haverford College Press Room

KYW Newsradio

The New York Times

NRC Handelsblad

Philadelphia Inquirer

Tags: Rene Descartes

This entry was posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 12:04 am by John Anderies and is filed under Announcements, Collections, Manuscripts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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