Hello!
I think, therefore I drink...............
So the secret is that he had a tumor in his nose (just saving y’all some time), but it probably wasn’t what killed him.
They are putting Descartes before the horse.
Interesting what you chose to excerpt from what is a story about Descartes’ skull.
You skipped right past the story and went straight to the end, which described the forensic expert’s qualifications.
I think, therefore I wish you would not keep messing with my skull.
I’ve always contended that Descartes got it backwards.
In his formulation, thought precedes being. That is incorrect. Being precedes thought.
His skull was nearly cubical, with well-defined perpendicular edges ...
Story’s wrong. They weren’t in the Vatican’s possession but in the care of a museum owned by the Archbishop of Tours. Check the link above.
These were “relics” that first appeared in 1869 in a pharmacy and were deposited in the museum in 1963.
If you read French, here’s the full account:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_d%27Arc#Reliques
Frankly, their provenance raises such immediate red flags that I’d be surprised if no one turned up an eyebrow over this at the time.
Another one of those “you’ll never believe” headlines.
When I started a thread about those recently, my favorite response was: “President Truman Ends War with This Weird Trick.”
Joan of Arc was an Eygptian cat. That’s a bombshell!