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In May 1597, his mother Jeanne Brochard, died a few days after giving birth to a still-born child. [24] [23] Descartes's father, Joachim, was a member of the Parlement of Rennes at Rennes. [25]: 22 René lived with his grandmother and with his great-uncle.
Jeanne Brochard (1597), mother of René Descartes, died after giving birth to a stillborn child; Gabrielle d'Estrées (1599), mistress of the French King, died following eclampsia; Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Duchess of Orléans; Jeanne Sconin Racine (1641), mother of Jean Racine, died while giving birth to her second child ...
Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van der Strom, [ 1 ] a domestic servant of Thomas Sergeant — a bookshop owner and associate of Descartes at whose house in Amsterdam Descartes lodged on 15 October 1634.
Later into the movement, Catherine Descartes's opinion of her uncle's work changed, as she began to question her uncle's more masculine views on philosophy. [4] In a poetic view of Descartes's life, Catherine Descartes had a figure known as Lady Philosophy appear to Queen Christina, one of the main supports of Rene Descartes's work.
René Descartes begins to write the treaty in the 1630s and gives up publishing it when he learns of Galileo's condemnation. [ 1 ] A first version of the text appeared in Latin in 1662, edited and prefaced by Florent Schuyl, who proposed another edition in 1664 in the same language from another manuscript.
In the Netherlands, where Descartes had lived for a long time, Cartesianism was a doctrine popular mainly among university professors and lecturers.In Germany the influence of this doctrine was not relevant and followers of Cartesianism in the German-speaking border regions between these countries (e.g., the iatromathematician Yvo Gaukes from East Frisia) frequently chose to publish their ...
In the first part of his work, Descartes ponders the relationship between the thinking substance and the body. For Descartes, the only link between these two substances is the pineal gland (art. 31), the place where the soul is attached to the body. The passions that Descartes studies are in reality the actions of the body on the soul (art. 25).
It was written in Latin, published in 1644 and dedicated to Elisabeth of Bohemia, with whom Descartes had a long-standing friendship. A French version (Les Principes de la Philosophie) followed in 1647. The book sets forth the principles of nature—the Laws of Physics—as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in ...