Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Few people throughout history have contributed to the development of the modern world more

than Rene Descartes.

He was a philosopher, a scientist, and a mathematician who wrote on a variety of subjects.

He believed that the human body possessed the spirits of animals, which affected the

human soul.

And he also helped prove our own existence with a phrase that I'm sure you've heard

before.

I think, therefore, I am.

But perhaps the most interesting part of Descartes' life didn't actually occur while

he was alive.

It was how he got ahead after he died.

Descartes hailed from Turin, France and helped shape the age of enlightenment of the 17th

century.

His life was relatively short, with the noted philosopher passing away from pneumonia in

Sweden at the age of 53, but in his wake, he didn't just leave behind one of the most

influential legacies ever recorded.

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