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"French"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Descartes, René (1596-1650)"
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"Fabric"
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Date: 1644, 1647
"Sensory awareness comes about by means of nerves, which stretch like threads from the brain to all the limbs, and are joined together in such a way that hardly any part of the human body can be touched without producing movement in several of the nerve-ends that are scattered around in that area"
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