Descartes didn't really 'discover' things. He was a philosopher and mathematician. He is known, amongst other things, for developing the cartesian system of co-ordinates (the xy system we usually use for graphs), founding rationalist philosophy, for his work on optics, and for laying the mathematical foundations for the development of the calculus.
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Descartes didn't really 'discover' things. He was a philosopher and mathematician. He is known, amongst other things, for developing the cartesian system of co-ordinates (the xy system we usually use for graphs), founding rationalist philosophy, for his work on optics, and for laying the mathematical foundations for the development of the calculus.
Descartes didn't really 'discover' things. He was a philosopher and mathematician. He is known, amongst other things, for developing the cartesian system of co-ordinates (the xy system we usually use for graphs), founding rationalist philosophy, for his work on optics, and for laying the mathematical foundations for the development of the calculus.