Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

by ACZEL, Amir D.

$50 · Offered by Between the Covers

New York: Broadway Books, (2005). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. Illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author, who also wrote the best seller, *Fermats Last Theorm*, maintains that Descartes kept a secret notebook of which two pages were deciphered by Leibniz. According to Aczel, Descartes was a mystic and belonged..... More

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