He was highly intelligent and incredible prolific writer, publishing many papers in a short period of 20 years. He made major advances in many areas including philosophy, mathematics, and religion. The (x,y) coordinate system or Cartesian coordinate system is named after Descartes. Some of his ideas on religion were controversial, so he was non-conformist. His ideas were counter to the teachings of the church. He was courageous, but also pragmatic, as he did not publish his last book, knowing he would be condemned by the Catholic church. You can read more on his personality in the related links. His family ties seem strained at times.
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When young, Rene Descartes had his small toe, on his left foot, bitten off by a cat, this fact was hidden throughout his entire life. He was four years old
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Rene Descartes valued rationality and human logic. Descartes is famous for his sentence, "I think, therefore I am." It was the mind that Descartes valued more than anything else.
Rene Descartes was a man (boy as young).
Descartes believed that the human mind contained particular innate ideas, one of which was infinity. Rene Descartes was a French philosopher.
Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in La Heye en Touraine, France.He died on February 11, 1650 (he was 53.)The place Rene Descartes was born in (La Haye en Touraine, France) was renamed La Haye-Descartes in 1802 in his honor, and then it was renamed again to just Descartes in 1967.