{"id":191,"date":"2010-02-26T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:35:43","slug":"key-letter-by-descartes-found-after-170-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/02\/26\/1438232\/Key-Letter-By-Descartes-Found-After-170-Years?from=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29\">Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]housands of treasured documents&#8230; vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by Ren\u00e9 Descartes&#8230; Now one of those purloined letters has turned up at a small private college in eastern Pennsylvania&#8230; The letter, dated May 27, 1641, concerns the publication of Meditations on First Philosophy, a celebrated work whose use of reason and scientific methods helped to ignite a revolution in thought.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Un commentaire rigolo sur slashdot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> > can we have the text please? (Preferably in a human language)<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, it&#8217;s written in French.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years &#8220;[T]housands of treasured documents&#8230; vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by Ren\u00e9 Descartes&#8230; Now one of those purloined letters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histoire","category-mathematiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}