Descartes: A Biography.Descartes: A Biography Desmond M. Clarke Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). 40 W 20th St, 7th fl, NY, NY 10011-4211 www.cambridge.org 0521823013 $40.00 1-800-872-7423 Philosophy professor Desmond Clarke The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. presents Descartes: A Biography, an exhaustively in-depth accounting of the life of mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Rene Descartes. Obscure during his life, yet famous after his death, Descartes was a crucial contributor to the Scientific Revolution, and even tried to prove the existence of God, though his contemporaries considered those attempts questionable at best. He is immortalized today in the name of the Cartesian coordinate Cartesian coordinate n. A member of the set of numbers that locates a point in a Cartesian coordinate system. Noun 1. Cartesian coordinate system, and the transformation of thought he helped usher has left repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl up to the modern day. Descartes: A Biography examines both Descartes' personal life and his great discoveries and achievements, and is highly recommended for library and biography shelves. |
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