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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Elisabeth at age 12. Elisabeth Simmern van Pallandt was born on December 26, 1618, in Heidelberg. [1] [4] She was the third of thirteen children and eldest daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England and sister of Charles I.
She called him her mentor and her manager, but to Céline Dion, René Angélil’s greatest role was that of her husband. Dion was just a child when she met the man who would change her life ...
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.
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 ...