Descartes, René (1596-1650)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3581. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Mathematician and philosopher, born in La Haye (now Descartes), Touraine, France, settled in Holland. His work, La Géométrie, formulated geometry in terms of algebra, from which comes the concept of Cartesian coordinates. Studied Aristotelian philosophy and was attracted to mathematics, and the purely logical analysis of practically everything. Wrote Discours de la Méthode pour bien Conduire sa R...

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