Descartes in 90 Minutes: Audiobook
Part of The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Descartes in 90 Minutes audiobook runs 1.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 0.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 1.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.3 hours, it is shorter than 96% of the 2,732 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog.
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Simon Vance narrates 334 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,407 hours in all.
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About as long, on the History & Culture shelf
46 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Descartes in 90 Minutes is an audiobook by Paul Strathern: a 1.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released June 25, 2005, on the History & Culture shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- June 25, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- History & Culture
- Series
- The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series
- ISBN
- 9781481536073
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Descartes in 90 Minutes audiobook?
Descartes in 90 Minutes runs 1.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.8 hours.
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Who narrates Descartes in 90 Minutes?
Descartes in 90 Minutes is narrated by Simon Vance.