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Rene is born
Rene Decartes is born in a small town called La Haye in the south of France. -
renes mother dies
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Rene Descartes life span
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Rene goes to school
He attends a Juist college he studied literture, grammar, science, and mathmatics -
Rene leaves La Flecha
He left La Flecha to study cannon and civil law at Poitiers -
degress
Rene recives his baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in law. But he still stuided theology and philosopy and medicine -
Army
goes to Holland and joins the Prince Maurice of Nassau army -
Dreams
He had numerous dreams that he interpited as he has found a unified scientific system based on mathmatics -
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renes carrer as a pholosopher
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He returns
Rene returns to France and spends five years in Paris -
Rules for the direction of mind
He composes the rules for the direction of mind -
Holland
He leaves for Holland which is his new home till 1649 -
Chandoux
Rene distinguishes himself in a confromation with Chandoux, who claimed all science is based on probability while he claimed that only certainty could be basis of human knowledge and that he had a method for attaining certainty. Following this, Rene was encoraged by Casdinal Berulle to devolb his system -
The world
He begins working on "the world" -
Plans cancled
The condemnation of Galileo leads Rene to cancle the plans to publish the word -
published
Rene published "geometry" in which was his combination of algebra and geometry gave brith to analytical geometry, better known as Cartesian geometry -
death
Rene dies because of his fragile health -
how rene effects the today
Nasa today uses Renes mathmatics to make Turblence