Title page of the first edition of Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method (1637). Aside from his influential thinking, Descartes made important contributions to mathematics, physiology, and optics. He also wrote a compendium of music and a physiology textboo

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Title page of the first edition of Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method (1637). Aside from his influential thinking, Descartes made important contributions to mathematics, physiology, and optics. He also wrote a compendium of music and a physiology textbook. He was the greatest of 17th century French philosophers.

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