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Name: Rene
Gender: Male
Interests: Science,math,philosphy
Expertise: Scientist,Mathematician, Philsopher
Occupation: Scientist
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| The Scientific Revolution started when a small group of scholars began to question the geocentric
theory. After astronomers explored the secrets of the universe, other scientists began to study the
secrets of nature on earth. Careful observation and the use of the scientific method eventually
became important in many different fields. Some of the famous scientist of that time are Francis
Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon was an english politician and writer. Isaac
Newton helped to bring together their break through under a theory of motion. Galileo Galilei was
ancient greek physician. The scientific revolution was a period in time in which scientists achived
their goals, becoming scientist, philosophers and writers. This time period was most associated with
France. I am important to this time period because my research and finding were important to the
people of the time. | | |
| Among the branches of philosophy I had at an earlier period, given some attention to logic.The
second to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as
might be necessary for its adequate solution. According, seeing that our senses sometimes deceive
us. I was willing to suppose that there existed nothing really such as they presented to us; and
because some men error in reasoning and fall into paralogism, even on the simplest matters of
geometry,I, convinced that i was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasoning I
had hitherto taken for demonstrations; and finally, when I considered that the very same thoughts
which we experience when awake may also be experience when we are asleep, while there there is
at that time not one of them true, I supposed that all the objects that had ever entered into my
mind when awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my dreams. And as I observed
that this truth, I think, therefore I am was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt,
I concluded that I might with out scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I
was in search. I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists
only in thinking, and which that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any
material thing; so that "I" that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from
the body and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were
not, it would still continue to be all that it is. And as I observed that in the words I think there for I
am, there is nothing at all which gives me assurance of their truth beyond this, that I see very
clearly that in order to think it is necessary to exist, I concluded that I might take, as a general
rule, the principle that all the things which we very clearly and distinctly conceive are true, only
observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we
distinctly conceive.This all represents all the things that happen during the scientific revolution.
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| My name is Rene Descartes, I lived from 1596 -1650. During the time period of the Scientific
Revolution. I was one of the great french philosophers, mathematician and a scientist. I was
educated in Lesuit College at La Fleche and the Univ. of poitiers. Then I entered the army of prince
maurie of nassau. In 1628 I retired to holland, where I began my study on scientific research and
philosophic reflection. Even before I went to holland, I had begun my great work on the essays on
algebra and the "compendium muscae". But it was with the appearance in 1637 of group of essays
that I first made a name for myself. These writings included the famous discourse on method and
other essays on optics, meterors and analytical geometry. In 1649 I was invited by the queen to
sweden, but I was unable to endure the rigors of the northern climate and died not long after
arriving in sweden. It was with the intention of making math better to all fields of human
knowledge that I developed this methodology, the cardinal aspect of philosophy. I believe in this
saying "One thing that cannot be doubted; doubt itself, and "I think therefore I am". My influence
on philosophy was immense, and was widely felt in the law and theology also. I have been called
the father of modern philosophy but my importance has been challenged in recent years with
demonstration of my great debt to the scholastics in science, I discarded tradition and to an extent
supported the same method as Francis Bacon. but with emphasis on rationalization and logic rather
than upon experiences, my commitment to the scientific method. Mathematics was my greatest
interest, building upon the work of others, he originated the cartesian coordinates and cartesian
curres. | | |
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