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Descartes (other)
René Descartes René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramou ... (1596–1650) was a French mathematician and philosopher. Descartes or des Cartes may also refer to: Places * Descartes (crater), on the Moon * Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, a commune of France * Descartes Highlands, lunar landing site of Apollo 16 People with the surname * Blanche Descartes, collaborative pseudonym for R. Leonard Brooks, Arthur Harold Stone, Cedric Smith, and W. T. Tutte * Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter Transportation and vehicles * French frigate ''Descartes'' (1844–1867) * French cruiser Descartes (1896–1920) * ''René Descartes'' (ship), a cable-laying ship operated by France Télécom Other uses * Descartes (plotting tool), computer software * Descarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Descartes
René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, and later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age. Although he served a Dutch Reformed Church, Protestant state and was later counted as a Deism, deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic. Many elements of Descartes's philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the Neostoicism, revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine of Hippo, Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the Scholasticism, schools on two major point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
