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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.
René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART, also UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
About 2 years after Baillet's second volume of the biography of Rene Descartes was published, Catherine Descartes published her part of the story in a book called Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher (Relation de la mort de M. Descartes, Le Philosophe). This book was mainly a collection of poems, but the poems told an ...
Upon showing the queen some of the letters, Christina became interested in beginning a correspondence with Descartes. She invited him to Sweden, but Descartes was reluctant until she asked him to organize a scientific academy. Christina sent a ship to pick up the philosopher and 2,000 books. [49] Descartes arrived on 4 October 1649.
2007 – André Gorz committed joint suicide with his wife by lethal injection. 2008 – David Foster Wallace hanged himself on the back porch of his house in Claremont, California. 2009 – G.A Cohen died of a stroke. 2017 – Anne Dufourmantelle drowned while trying to rescue two children. [14] 2017 – Mark Fisher committed suicide by hanging.
Angélil, who was married to his second wife, Anne Renée, at the time, took on the role of agent, manager and producer to Dion. To launch her singing career in 1981, Reuters reported that he ...
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The Storage Wars family is mourning the loss of a treasured member. Gunter Nezhoda, the father of Storage Wars star Rene Nezhoda, has died at 67 years old. Gunter, an Austrian native who worked as ...