As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported ( in part ) by Gottfried Leibniz.

Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.

Some, like René Descartes, have thought that this is so ( this view is known as dualism, and functionalism also considers the mind as distinct from the body ), while others have thought that concepts of the mental can be reduced to physical concepts ( this is the view of physicalism or materialism ).

Illustration of dualism by René Descartes.

Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes — from his name — Rene Des-Cartes.

* Cartesian dualism, the philosophy of the distinction between mind and body developed by René Descartes

** Cartesianism, name given to the philosophy of René Descartes

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The invention of Cartesian coordinates in the 17th century by René Descartes ( Latinized name: Cartesius ) revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.

The adjective Cartesian refers to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( who used the name Cartesius in Latin ).

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While unfamiliar with the internalist / externalist debate himself, many point to René Descartes as an early example of the internalist approach to justification.

René Descartes.

René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed analytic geometry, an alternative method for formalizing geometry.

The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as a rationalist.

According to René Descartes, rationality is built first upon the realization of the absolute truth " I think therefore I am ", which requires no faith.

The historical, continental rationalism expounded by René Descartes is often regarded as antithetical to empiricism, while some contemporary rationalists assert that reason is strongest when it is supported by or consistent with empirical evidence and hence relies heavily on empirical science in analyzing justifications for belief.

Amidst this turmoil, René Descartes sought answers to philosophical questions through the use of logic and reason and formulated what would be called Cartesian Dualism in 1641.

Overall the philosophers were inspired by the thoughts of René Descartes, the skepticism of the Libertins and the popularization of science by Bernard de Fontenelle.

They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and René Descartes.

He found the works of modern philosophers, such as René Descartes, more interesting than the classical material taught at the university.

The use of the word " serial " in connection with music was first introduced in French by René Leibowitz ( 1947 ), and immediately afterward by Humphrey Searle in English, as an alternative translation of the German Zwölftontechnik Twelve-tone technique or Reihenmusik ( row music ); it was independently introduced by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen into German in 1954 as serielle Musik, with a different meaning, translated into English also as " serial music ".

* René Lalique and Maurice Marinot independently stage the first exhibitions of their glasswares.

Incredulity about the possibility of a mechanistic explanation of thought drove René Descartes, and most of humankind along with him, to dualism: the belief that the mind exists independently of the brain.

* 1936: French engineer René Leduc, having independently re-discovered René Lorin's design, successfully demonstrates the world's first operating ramjet.

Yet while he was oriented towards the West and the new allies of West Germany and paid little attention to comparatists in Eastern Europe, his conception of a transnational ( and transatlantic ) comparative literature was very much influenced by East European literary theorists of the Russian and Prague schools of structuralism, from whose works René Wellek, too, derived many of his concepts, concepts that continue to have profound implications for comparative literary theory today " ... A manual published by the University of Munich lists 31 departments which offer a diploma in comparative literature in Germany, albeit some only as a ' minor '.

René Guénon in Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism ( Sophia Perennis 2003 ) contended that Sufism was the esoteric aspect of Islam supported and complemented by exoteric practices and Islamic law.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples.

The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865.

** René Descartes, at age 20, graduates in civil and canon law at the University of Poitiers, where he becomes disillusioned with books, preferring to seek truths from " le grand livre du monde.

* René Cassin – French jurist, law professor and judge, former student of Nice's Lycée Massena, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

René Samuel Cassin ( born 5 October 1887 in Bayonne, France – died 20 February 1976 in Paris, France ) was a French jurist, law professor and judge.

Two Union Nationale MLAs, Jérôme Proulx and Antonio Flamand crossed the floor and sat as Independents, along with Parti Québécois Leader René Lévesque and Liberal dissident Yves Michaud to protest against the new law.

A Cartesian diver or Cartesian devil is a classic science experiment, named for René Descartes, which demonstrates the principle of buoyancy ( Archimedes ’ principle ) and the ideal gas law.

Although this agreement passed into law, augmenting the British North America Acts as the constitution of the land, it was reached over the objections of Quebec Premier René Lévesque, the Liberals under the leadership of Claude Ryan, and the Quebec National Assembly refused to approve the amendment.

Although this agreement passed into law, amending the British North America Acts, it was reached over the objections of Quebec Premier René Lévesque and the Quebec National Assembly refused to ratify the amendment.

René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at the University of Caen, where he graduated in 1902, receiving degrees in law and philosophy.

* L ' Abbé René Just Haüy states the geometrical law of crystallization.

He subsequently studied law and medicine, frequented the literary circle around Marguerite of Navarre and from 1541-43 was secretary to René du Bellay.

Because divorce was prohibited by law of both the Roman Catholic Church and in France, these children were baptized as the children of Madame Chouteau's legal husband, René Auguste Chouteau ( père ).

In the following year Ozanam was sent to study law in Paris, where he fell in with the Ampère family ( living for a time with the mathematician André-Marie Ampère ), and through them with other leaders of the neo-Catholic movement, such as François-René de Chateaubriand, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.

Subsequently René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction ( also known as Descartes ' law ), that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 ° ( i. e. the angle subtended at the eye by the edge of the rainbow and the rainbow's centre is 42 °).