René Descartes, 1596 1650. French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. The quote in the frame around his portrait is from Ovid's Tristia. Bene qui latuit, bene vixit, translates as One who lives well, lives unnoticed. After the painting by Frans Hals.
René Descartes, 1596 1650. French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. The quote in the frame around his portrait is from Ovid's Tristia. Bene qui latuit, bene vixit, translates as One who lives well, lives unnoticed. After the painting by Frans Hals.
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