descartes 音标拼音: [dek'ɑrt]
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Descartes n 1 :
French philosopher and mathematician ;
developed dualistic theory of mind and matter ;
introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (
1596 -
1650 ) [
synonym : {
Descartes }, {
Rene Descartes }]
Descartes \
Descartes \ (
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Ren ['
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Descartes ,
a French philosopher and mathematician ,
born 1596 ,
died 1650 .
See biography ,
below .
Syn :
Rene Descartes .
[
WordNet 1 .
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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 pneumonia .
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 ["
e ]
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 ["
e ]
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 .
[
Century Dict .
1906 ]
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