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René Descartes
French philosopher (–)
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Descartes brief biography
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René Descartes (day-KART or DAY-kart; French:[ʁənedekaʁt]ⓘ; [note 3][11] 31 March – 11 February )[12][13]:&#;58&#; was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and 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.[14] Although he served a Protestant state and was later counted as a deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholic.[15][16]
Many elements of Descartes's philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, th