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Birth
Rene Descartes was born. He was a french philospher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch republic. He has been dubbed the 'father of philosophy', and more subsequant western philosophy in response to his writings. -
Publsihed Ideas
Descartes later added theology and medicine to his studies. But he eschewed all this, “resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world,” he wrote much later in Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences. He also published his ideas of geometry in 1637. -
Utreceht
Cartesian philosophy was condmended at the university of Utreceht. -
Prohibited Books
The pope placed his works in the index of prohibited books.