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René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 was a French philosopher...141 KB (15,068 words) - 22:44, 3 June 2024
Snell's law (redirect from Descartes law)Snell's law (also known as the Snell–Descartes law, the ibn-Sahl law, and the law of refraction) is a formula used to describe the relationship between...27 KB (3,933 words) - 11:32, 1 June 2024- Paris Descartes University (French: Université Paris 5 René Descartes), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was...10 KB (961 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
physicist René Descartes. The rim of Descartes survives only in stretches, and is completely missing in the north. The crater Descartes A lies across the...7 KB (519 words) - 15:45, 5 November 2023
Meditations on First Philosophy (redirect from Descartes' meditations)philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation (by the Duke of Luynes with Descartes' supervision) was published...49 KB (6,993 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024
Evil demon (redirect from Descartes demon)philosophy. In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that a malevolent God or an evil demon, of "utmost power and...24 KB (3,387 words) - 05:29, 14 May 2024
Descartes (French pronunciation: [dekaʁt] ) is a large village and commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is approximately 29...7 KB (684 words) - 11:09, 15 February 2024- In number theory, a Descartes number is an odd number which would have been an odd perfect number if one of its composite factors were prime. They are...6 KB (773 words) - 09:38, 13 May 2024
The Lycée français René Descartes de Phnom Penh is a private French school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, operated under agreement with the Agency for French...7 KB (474 words) - 20:38, 1 October 2023- In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, first described by René Descartes in his work La Géométrie, is a technique for getting information on the number...10 KB (1,842 words) - 15:45, 16 February 2024
- The Weekenders (redirect from Carver Descartes)DeLisle), a hyperactive and dull-witted Scottish-American girl; Carver René Descartes (voiced by Phil LaMarr), a vain and materialistic African-American boy...10 KB (858 words) - 19:31, 20 May 2024
The Descartes Highlands is an area of lunar highlands located on the near side that served as the landing site of the American Apollo 16 mission in early...5 KB (616 words) - 21:08, 27 April 2024
The Descartes class comprised two protected cruisers of the French Navy built in the early 1890s; the two ships were Descartes and Pascal. They were ordered...24 KB (2,810 words) - 18:54, 1 January 2024
Lycée Descartes (formerly known as Lycée Gouraud) is a French international school in Rabat, Morocco. The establishment is directly managed by the AEFE...3 KB (310 words) - 01:07, 16 March 2024
Principles of Philosophy (redirect from Principles of Philosophy (Descartes))Principles of Philosophy (Latin: Principia Philosophiae) is a book by René Descartes. In essence, it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations...7 KB (860 words) - 21:08, 25 May 2024- The World (book) (redirect from The World (Descartes))Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete...10 KB (1,471 words) - 04:45, 5 March 2024
- Ghost in the machine (redirect from Descartes' myth)description of René Descartes' mind–body dualism. Ryle introduced the phrase in The Concept of Mind (1949) to highlight the view of Descartes and others that...6 KB (739 words) - 01:00, 13 April 2024
- Mechanical explanations of gravitation (redirect from Descartes' vortex theory)freely, which according to Descartes implies that every motion is circular, so the aether is filled with vortices. Descartes also distinguishes between...26 KB (3,413 words) - 03:39, 23 May 2024
In geometry, the folium of Descartes (from Latin folium 'leaf'; named for René Descartes) is an algebraic curve defined by the implicit equation x 3 +...6 KB (958 words) - 05:26, 6 April 2024- The Descartes Prize was an annual award in science given by the European Union, named in honour of the French mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes...7 KB (694 words) - 02:16, 10 April 2024
- See also: descartes and descartés English Wikipedia has an article on: Descartes (disambiguation) Wikipedia French Descartes (UK) IPA(key): /deɪˈkɑːt/
- by Florian Cajori Descartes to Newton 1629551A History of Mathematics/Modern Europe — Descartes to NewtonFlorian Cajori DESCARTES TO NEWTON. Among
- René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for
- Consciousness Studies/Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Philosophy (redirect from Consciousness Studies/Descartes and the empiricists)Descartes was also known as Cartesius. He had an empirical approach to consciousness and the mind, describing in his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)