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He questions philosophers from the past such as Aristotle with reason and math. This influences Rene with his thoughts on doubt to better understand a concept.
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Born in La Haye en Touraine, Touraine, France. The city is eventually renamed to Descartes.
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At age 8 Rene is enrolled in the boarding school at Jesuit College of Henri IV in La Fleche, for 7 years.
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Francine is born. Daughter of Rene. She dies at age 5 from a Fever
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Publication Date. It gave rise to his most famous quote, "I think, therefore I am." "Cogito ergo sum"
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Creation of Analytic Geomrty. This later helped contribute to Leibniz and Newton with the development of Calculus.
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Death by pneumonia
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In his manuscripts Leibniz metions his discoveries on Calculus. Using a different notation from Newton.
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Newton Publishes Methodus Fluxionu, where he describes aspects of calculus. He had worked on this since the late 1600s, his work wasn't published until much later.
