Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the ...

THIS is a reprint—“nouvelle édition” it calls itself—of the great work of Descartes, giving the first exposition (such as it is) of the system of co-ordinate geometry since known as ...

Christa Lesté-Lasserre is a science journalist specialising in animal ... complemented by postgraduate work at the University of Paris René Descartes. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in ...