Thursday, February 25, 2010
Stolen Descartes letter found
Back in the 1800s, some Italian mathematician stole a bunch of Descartes's letters from the Institut de France. So far, only 45 out of the 72 documents have resurfaced. Recently one of the letters was discovered in the special collections of a certain college in Pennsylvania, a place you may have heard of before...
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This is awesome.
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