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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
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Author name:
"Descartes, René (1596-1650)"
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Date: 1664
"I should like you to consider, after this, all the functions I have ascribed to this machine -- such as the digestion of food, the beating of the heart and arteries, the nourishment and growth of the limbs, respiration, waking and sleeping, the reception by the external sense organs of light, so...
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