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Galileo
He questions philosophers from the past such as Aristotle with reason and math. This influences Rene with his thoughts on doubt to better understand a concept. -
Birthday
Born in La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, France. The city is eventually renamed to Descartes. -
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Life
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College
At age 8 Rene is enrolled in the boarding school at Jesuit College of Henri IV in La Fleche, for 7 years. -
Moves to the Netherlands
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Birth of daughter
Francine is born. Daughter of Rene. She dies at age 5 from a Fever -
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Scineces
Publication Date. It gave rise to his most famous quote, "I think, therefore I am." "Cogito ergo sum" -
La Geometrie
Creation of Analytic Geomrty. This later helped contribute to Leibniz and Newton with the development of Calculus.
It is most notably known as the creation of the Coordinate plane -
Place of Death Stockholm, Sweden
Death by pneumonia -
Leibniz Calculus
In his manuscripts Leibniz metions his discoveries on Calculus. Using a different notation from Newton. -
Newton's Calculus
Newton Publishes Methodus Fluxionu, where he describes aspects of calculus. He had worked on this since the late 1600s, his work wasn't published until much later.
