'Rene Descartes', (1933). Portrait of French thinker, mathematician and scientist Rene Descartes (1596-1650), one of the great figures in the history of Western thought and widely considered to be the father of modern philosophy. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]