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Descartes \Descartes\ (d[asl]*k[aum]rt") prop. n. Ren['e] Descartes, a French philosopher and mathematician, born 159, died 1650. See biography, below.
Syn: Rene Descartes. [WordNet 1.5] Descartes, Ren['e] (Latinized Renatus Cartesius). Born at La Haye, Touraine, France, March 31, 1596: died at Stockholm, Feb. 11, 1650. A. celebrated French philosopher, founder of Cartesianism and of modern philosophy in general. He was graduated at seventeen from the Jesuit college of La Fl[`e]che, spent five years in Paris (1613-18), and then roamed about in search of knowledge in Germany, Italy, Holland, and Poland. In 1628 he attended the siege of La Rochelle as a volunteer. From 1629 to 1649 he led a retired life in Holland, spreading and defending his philosophical ideas. He finally went to Stockholm on the invitation of Queen Christina of Sweden; five months later he died there of pneumoni
The work that has made him famous as a philosopher is a short treatise entitled "Discours de la m['e]thode" (Leyden, 1637). It was published in French together with three essays in support of his theories, "La dioptrique," "Les m['e]t['e]ores," and "La g['e]om['e]trie." In it he revolutionized the science of thought. Descartes himself published during his lifetime "Meditationes de prima philosophia "(Paris, 1641; Amsterdam, 1642; translated into French, 1647), "Principia philosophiae" (Amsterdam, 1644), "Trait['e] des passions de l'[^a]me" (Amsterdam, 1649), and a polemic pamphlet entitled "Epistola Renati Descartes ad Gisbertum Vo[eum]itum" (Amsterdam, 1643). After his death his friends published his "De l'homme" (1664), "Trait['e] de la formation du foetus" (1664), "Le monde ou trait['e] de la lumi[`e]re de Descartes" (1664), "Lettres" (1657-67), and "Opuscula posthuma, physica et mathematica" (Amsterdam, 1701). Descartes ranked among the foremost mathematicians of his day. A separate reprint was made of his geometry, and the work itself was translated into Latin in 1649, and re[eum]dited in 1659 with notes and comments. In this form it constituted a classic standard throughout Europe, and presented an entirely new basis for the study of algebra and geometry.
Wikipedia
Descartes is a heavily worn lunar crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Abulfeda. It is named after the French philosopher, mathematician and 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 southwest rim. The interior floor contains several curved ridges. These are concentric with the surviving outer walls to the northwest and southeast.
A section of the outer rim of Descartes is covered by a region that has a higher albedo than the surrounding surface. Measurements by the Clementine spacecraft showed that this patch is actually a magnetic anomaly—the strongest on the near side of the Moon. This magnetic field may be deflecting particles from the solar wind, and thus preventing the underlying surface from growing darker because of space weathering.
About 50 kilometers to the north of this crater was the landing site of Apollo 16. The uneven region about the landing area is sometimes called the Descartes Highlands or the Descartes Mountains.
descartes is a platform-independent image, data, and function plotter with underlying Python scripting in the background. Its source code is released under the GNU GPL licence.
Descartes may refer to:
- University of Paris V: René Descartes, a university in Paris
- The Descartes Prize, the European prize for excellence in scientific research and science communication
- Descartes (crater), on the Moon
- Descartes Highlands, landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon
- Descartes (plotting tool), computer software
- Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, a commune of France
- Descartes Editeur, a French game publishing company
- René Descartes (ship), a cable-laying ship operated by France Télécom
- Descartes (company), a messaging service provider for logistics trading partners
- Descartes number, a number that is "almost" a perfect number
- Descartes' rule of signs, a mathematical technique devised by René Descartes that is used to find the number of positive, negative, and imaginary roots of a polynomial
- French frigate Descartes
Usage examples of "descartes".
When she first boarded, as the newly hired doctor for the Descartes Mining Platform Number 6, the sound drove her halfway to distraction.
Enoch tried yet another tack: “I have in my saddlebags a copy of Principia Philosophica, the last thing Descartes wrote before he died.
And this, combined with the new method of analysis of Descartes, gives us a way to describe Creation and perhaps to predict the future.
That only worked if there was a language, or at least an alphabet, that had the power of expressing shapes without literally depicting them, a problem that Monsieur Descartes had lately solved by (first) conceiving of curves, lines, et cetera, as being collections of individual points and (then) devising a way to express a point by giving its coordinates—two numbers, or letters representing numbers, or (best of all) algebraic expressions that could in principle be evaluated to generate numbers.
He has to translate it back into the sort of language that Descartes would have used.
If that rope were stretched tight it would be akin to one of the numbered lines employed by Monsieur Descartes in his Geometry.
This from men who’d personally known Descartes and Fermat and who considered exaggeration an unspeakably vulgar habit.
And it also contains certain unpublished manuscripts of Descartes and Pascal.
I sit there in Colbert’s house trying to understand Descartes, working the mathematical proofs that Huygens, my tutor, gives me, and looking out the windows as the street fills up with porters staggering under their back-loads of gold and silver, converging on a few doorways.
I tried to cover my embarrassment by ranting to the children about Descartes and Euclid.
Until Descartes, everyone supposed that such truths were few in number, and that Euclid and the other ancients had found almost all of them.
But when Descartes began his project, we all got into the habit of mapping things into a space that could be described by numbers.
Whether her fellow employees knew it or not, one of the chief reasons that the Descartes Mining Corporation had so few duels and mutinies on delivery runs was due to the peace-inducing hum of the engines.
After much negotiation, Lunzie signed on with Descartes for a stint on a remote mining platform.
Fiona had been angry that she couldn't accompany her mother to the Descartes Platform, and had refused to accept the fact.