…of Prague in the winter of 1819 by invading Habsburg armies, that one among those invading Habsburg armies was the 21-year-old René Descartes, I like to imagine actually that Descartes was present at the slaying of Meyer and that this was unknown to each…

…the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measure and number. And that revelation laid the basis for modern science. René Descartes is the founder of the distinction between the res virens and the res extensa, the founder of modern science, the…

…and shaky mystical ways. The classic example that I always give, because it has so much fun, basically, is that, you know, René Descartes' invention of scientific materialism was at the behest of an angel. An angel appeared to him in a dream. He records…