René Descartes
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 374 years ago |
Date of birth | March 31,1596 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Date of died | February 11,1650 |
Died | Stockholm |
Sweden | |
Influenced | John Locke |
Isaac Newton | |
Baruch Spinoza | |
Influenced by | Plato |
Aristotle | |
Thomas Aquinas | |
Era | 17th-century philosophy; Age of Enlightenment |
Parents | Joachim Descartes |
Jeanne Brochard | |
Children | Francine Descartes |
Siblings | Anne Descartes |
Pierre Descartes | |
Jeanne Descartes | |
Joachim Descartes | |
Born | Descartes |
France | |
Books | Passions of the Soul |
Discourse on Method | |
Meditations on First Philosophy | |
Principles of Philosophy | |
La Géométrie | |
Nationality | French |
Influence | Archimedes |
William Harvey | |
Isaac Beeckman | |
Thomas Aquinas | |
Ibn al-Haytham | |
Influencees | Immanuel Kant |
Isaac Newton | |
Influences | Aristotle |
Plato | |
Thomas Aquinas | |
William Harvey | |
Michel de Montaigne | |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
Place of burial | Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 413398 |
René Descartes Life story
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was central to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.