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.

* 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.

However, as René Descartes noticed, perceptual space has a projective geometry, things within it appear as if they are viewed from a point.

* Isaac Beeckman ( 1588 – 1637 ), Dutch intellectual and friend of René Decartes, has his own candle factory in Zierikzee, Netherlands, until 1616, when he returns to Middelburg to study medicine.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

; Belgian surrealism: The surrealism movement has major representatives in Belgium: Paul Delvaux, René Magritte.

Her father, popularly known as " Good King René " was Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem ; he has been described as " a man of many crowns but no kingdoms ".

History and legend has given René the title " Good King René of Provence ", though he only lived in Provence in the last ten years of his life, from 1470 to 1480, and his political policies of territorial expansion were costly and unsuccessful.

The right-wing has been divided into three broad families by historian René Rémond.

In conspiracy theories, such as the one promoted in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, René has been alleged to be the ninth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.

The township has a rich and varied history as far back as October 15, 1660, with the arrival of the first white man on record, French Jesuit priest Father René Menard.

Some of the most impressive museums in Belgium are The Royal Museum for Fine Arts, in Antwerp, which has an admirable collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the Groeningemuseum, in Bruges, with the Flemish Primitives, the MAS ( Museum Aan De Stoom ) wich is located on't eilandje is the biggest museum in Belgium, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which has a cinema, a concert hall, and artworks of many periods, including a large René Magritte collection.

The term has been used in André Malraux ’ s novel ( 1933 ) and René Magritte ’ s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt ’ s book ( 1958 ) and Masaki Kobayashi ’ s film series ( 1959-1961 ).

The western approach to the self has various proponents, none more famous than perhaps René Descartes in his famous “ Meditations on first philosophy ” where the cogito ; I think therefore I am was drawn as a necessary conclusion.

In his 1945 book " The Reign of Quantity and The Sign of Times " metaphysician and author René Guénon has a full chapter on the subject of Gog and Magog (" The fissures of the great wall ").

René Girard has explored the role of envy and mimetic desire in such relationships, arguing that often the situation ' subordinates a desired something to the someone who enjoys a privileged relationship with it '.

* René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.

René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).

Ideologically, Le Devoir has been a chief voice against military intervention and in favour of pacifism and social democracy, opposing conscription in World War II ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ) and endorsing, under federalist Ryan's tenure, the election of René Lévesque's new socialist-inspired Parti Québécois in the 1976 election, despite its platform centred on Québécois nationalism.

Mimesis has been theorised by thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, Luce Irigaray, René Girard, Nikolas Kompridis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Michael Taussig, Merlin Donald, and Homi Bhabha.

René Harris, who has served a number of terms as President of Nauru, represented Aiwo in Parliament for many years.

In 1449 King René d ' Anjou gave to Angers Cathedral the amphora from Cana in which Jesus changed water to wine, acquiring it from the nuns of Marseilles, who told him that Mary Magdalene had brought it with her from Judea, relating to the legend where she was the jilted bride at the wedding following John the Evangelist received his calling from Jesus.

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

In 1931, the prestige of Monaco's cultural life received a boost when René Blum was hired to form the " Ballet de l ' Opéra à Monte-Carlo.

He received lessons on botany from René Just Haüy, which allowed him to meet Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

Bigeard's parachute assault companies were supported by concentrated artillery and air support, and received help from tanks, allowing two companies ( 1st under Lieutenant René Le Page and 2nd under Lieutenant Hervé Trapp ) numbering no more than 180 men to recapture the important hilltop position of Eliane 1 from a full Viet Minh battalion, on the early morning of 10 April 1954.

and it received four additional Tony Award nominations: Best Original Score ( Peter Link ), Best Featured Actor in a Play ( René Auberjonois ), and Best Lighting Design ( Tharon Musser ).

* René Anxionnaz of France's Rateau company received a patent on an advanced jet design incorporating bypass.

* provincial by-election, August 14, 1987, received 99 votes in Cochrane North ( winner: René Fontaine, Liberal )

Mr. Justice René P. Foisy, Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, held 56 days of public hearings and received evidence from 150 parties.

René François Artois was recognized for his role in helping the Resistance twice, once during the last episode entitled A Winkle in Time where René received the Magnificent Brother of France ( MBF ) Medal.

Having been involved in numerous dance-contests, René managed to reach the top-10 of the German dance-contest " Disco Kings " with his acrobatic dance style.

From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga ( Au-delà des grilles ) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games ( Jeux interdits ).

He was an avid plant collector, sending over 200, 000 herbarium specimens back to France, from which numerous new genera and over 1, 500 new species were described, many by Adrien René Franchet of the Paris Muséum national d ' Histoire naturelle.

René de Saussure ( brother of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure ) published numerous Esperantido proposals, starting with a response to Ido later called Antido 1 (" Anti-Ido 1 ") in 1907, which increasingly diverged from Esperanto before finishing with a more conservative Esperanto II in 1937.

Gold and enamel pectoral by René Lalique, Museu Gulbenkian, Lisbon

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

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

He was an efficient member of the American revision committee for the Revised Version ( 1881-1885 ) of the King James Bible, and helped prepare Caspar René Gregory's Prolegomena to the revised Greek New Testament of Constantin von Tischendorf.

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.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

Tribute to René Clair: I Married a Witch, Jean Cocteau ( 1945 ), a set design for the Théâtre de la Mode.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.

René Descartes for example argued that animals lack consciousness and therefore do not experience pain and suffering in the way that humans do.

René Descartes died on 11 February 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a tutor for Queen Christina of Sweden.

Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

Round Tables were popular in various European countries through the rest of the Middle Ages and were at times very elaborate ; René of Anjou even erected an Arthurian castle for his 1446 Round Table.

René Descartes is credited for developing a global skepticism as a thought experiment in his attempt to find absolute certainty on which to base the foundation of his philosophy.

Optics, for instance, was revolutionized by people like Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, René Descartes and, once again, Isaac Newton, who developed mathematical theories of light as either waves ( Huygens ) or particles ( Newton ).

They witnessed the intellectual and theological battle the proponents of the new philosophy ( René Descartes lived for a few years in Utrecht ) fought with the proponents of the strict Reformed theologian Voetius.

But after the sudden death of his son John in December 1470, René, for reasons which are not altogether clear, decided to move his residence to Provence and leave Anjou for good.

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.

Alfonso I conquered Naples after his victory against the last Angevin king, René, Naples was unified for a brief period with Sicily again.

Since Caesar is one of the characters in the Astérix and Obélix albums, René Goscinny included gags for French schoolchildren who had the Commentarii as a textbook.

Searching for a replacement they recruited René van Collem ( 1961 ), a seaside bartender who knew how to play a reggae-beat.