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René Descartes

Born

in la Haye, Touraine, kingdom of France

March 31, 1596

Died

February 11, 1650

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

Genre

Philosophy, Science

Influences

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Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644), main works of French mathematician and scientist René Descartes, considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism, include the famous dictum "I think, therefore I am."

A set of two perpendicular lines in a plane or three in space intersect at an origin in Cartesian coordinate system. Cartesian coordinate, a member of the set of numbers, distances, locates a point in this system. Cartesian coordinates describe all points of a Cartesian plane.

From given sets, {X} and {Y}, one can construct Cartesian product, a set of all pairs of elements (x, y), such that x belongs to {X} and y belongs to {Y}.

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	Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.76 avg rating — 33,931 ratings — published 1637 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations on First Philosophy 3.74 avg rating — 26,678 ratings — published 1641 — 385 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating — 22,808 ratings — published 1637 — 1513 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies by René Descartes, John Cottingham (Translator), Bernard Williams (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 2,044 ratings — published 1641 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume I by René Descartes, John Cottingham (Translator), Robert Stoothoff (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 1911 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passions of the Soul by René Descartes, Stephen Voss (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 1649 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by René Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 1641 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Philosophical Writings by René Descartes, John Cottingham (Translator), Robert Stoothoff (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 729 ratings — published 1927 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rules for the Direction of the Mind by René Descartes, Laurence J. Lafleur (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 1619 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes, John Veitch (Translator), Paul Hoyt-O'Connor (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1644 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by René Descartes (?)

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

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“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

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