Because there was a mathematician named ren'e Cartesian. He came up with the idea of specifying the position of a point or object on a surface using 2 intersecting axes measuring guides.
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A coordinate plane is sometimes called Cartesian plane in honor of René Descartes. YOU ARE AN IDIOT
The coordinate plane is sometimes call the Cartesian plane because Rene Descartes is often credited with inventing the coordinate plane and so the coordinate plane is sometimes called the Cartesian plane,in his honor.
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The coordinate plane, sometimes called the Cartesian plane, was developed by Rene Descartes in 1637. Descartes was a French mathematician born in 1596.
The centre of a coordinate plane is the point (0,0), also called the origin.