Rene Decartes
Date Submitted: 10/10/2004 19:46:31
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1175 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1175 words)
Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in a small town in Touraine called La Haye, now called La Haye-Descartes or simply Descartes (3:1). Rene was the second of two sons and one daughter (4:1). When he was about the age of nine, his father sent him to a new Jesuit College, Henri IV at La Fleche (3:1). Due to his delicate health, Descartes was allowed to sleep late in the mornings, a custom to which he always followed (4:1).
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…teach her about his philosophy. He came to Stockholm during the brutal winter of 1650 and caught pneumonia in February. After more than a week of suffering, he died on February 11, 1650 (2:2).
Works Cited
1. Barrett, William. Death of the Soul from Descartes to the Computer.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1986.
2. http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/descartes.html
3. http://www.spu.edu/~hawk/descaresh.html
4. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB
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