René Descartes
31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650
French philosopher and mathematician, often called the father of modern philosophy, who coined "cogito, ergo sum" and invented Cartesian coordinate geometry.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with René Descartes.
- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) Overlapped 54 years →
- Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) Overlapped 54 years →
- Shah Jahan (1592–1666) Overlapped 54 years →
- Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) Overlapped 54 years →
- William Harvey (1578–1657) Overlapped 54 years →
- Queen Nzinga (1583–1663) Overlapped 54 years →
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Settled in the Dutch Republic
1628
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Published Discourse on the Method
1637
Its appendix La Géométrie founded analytic geometry.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Published Meditations on First Philosophy
1641
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