Descartes Letter

Haverford Returns Descartes Letter To French Library

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — A letter by 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes that languished unnoticed in a U.S. college library for more than a century h...

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Haverford College To Return Stolen Letter By Descartes

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVERFORD, Pa. — The valuable 17th-century letter was hiding in plain sight, available to almost anyone who checked the "D" drawer of the librar...

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Descartes's Stolen Letter Found

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800...

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