The canton of Descartes is an administrative division of the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 8 communes, which joined the canton of Descartes in 2015. It had...
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Descartes (French pronunciation: [dekaʁt] ) is a large village and commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is approximately 29...
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Elven, Morbihan (category Communes of Morbihan)
church was consecrated in 1879. Catherine Descartes (1637–1706), poet and niece of the philosopher René Descartes, was born in Kerleau manor. Her uncle signed...
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effect in March 2015: Amboise Ballan-Miré Bléré Château-Renault Chinon Descartes Joué-lès-Tours Langeais Loches Montlouis-sur-Loire Monts Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire...
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Indre-et-Loire (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2022)
Maine-et-Loire and Sarthe. The commune of Descartes is famous as the birthplace of French philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes. The most populous commune...
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William. The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of René Descartes, Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1991. James E. McClellan III...
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Stockholm (redirect from Capital of Sweden)
Christina, was a strong supporter of science and culture. Réne Descartes, one of the most prominent European philosophers of his time, died in Stockholm; he...
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Press. Shea, William (1991), The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of René Descartes, Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications...
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Poitiers (redirect from History of Poitiers)
the creation of its university in 1431, having hosted René Descartes, Joachim du Bellay and François Rabelais, among others. The centre of town is picturesque;...
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John Pell (mathematician) (category Doctors of Divinity)
of Sir Charles Cavendish. He was also a compeer and correspondent of René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes. He was born at Southwick in West Sussex, England...
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Amsterdam (redirect from Geography of Amsterdam)
René Descartes, and the Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank. Due to its geographical location in what used to be wet peatland, the founding of Amsterdam...
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Athanasius Kircher (category Academic staff of the University of Würzburg)
the end of his life he was eclipsed by the rationalism of René Descartes and others. In the late 20th century, however, the aesthetic qualities of his work...
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reoccupation. 1637: Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians, rōnin and peasants against Edo. 1637: René Descartes publishes Discours de la Méthode ("The...
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Democracy (redirect from Symbols of democracy)
councils of FEJUVE, and Kurdish cantons of Rojava. Some modern democracies that are predominantly representative in nature also heavily rely upon forms of political...
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Paris (redirect from List of twin towns and sister cities of Paris)
Library, Leonardo da Vinci University Library, Paris School of Mines Library, and the René Descartes University Library. Paris's most popular sport clubs are...
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analytical geometry by Descartes some 1800 years later. Around the same time, Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276–194 BC) devised the Sieve of Eratosthenes for finding...
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Le Blanc-Mesnil (category Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis)
Le Blanc-Mesnil. Retrieved on September 4, 2016. "Collège Descartes." French Department of Education. Retrieved on September 4, 2016. "Médiathèque Edouard...
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related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Loches were, as of January 2015: Descartes Le Grand-Pressigny Ligueil...
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France (redirect from Republic of france)
in the 17th century with the philosophy of René Descartes, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Malebranche. Descartes was the first Western philosopher since ancient...
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Political philosophy (redirect from List of classics of political philosophy)
ISBN 978-0-8476-7866-2. Some of his texts, especially the Communist Manifesto made him seem like a sort of communist Descartes ... Cherniss, Joshua; Hardy...
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Noam Chomsky (redirect from Criticisms of Noam Chomsky)
from the original on April 27, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2010. Le pays de Descartes ignore largement ce rationaliste, la patrie des Lumières se dérobe à ce...
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Eva Son-Forget (category Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic)
(co-accredited by Paris Descartes University, EHESS and ENS Ulm) with cognitive psychologist Stanislas Dehaene. In 2008 she graduated at the end of the second cycle...
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The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558–1648...
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Reformed Christianity (redirect from Five points of calvinism)
of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza were Portuguese Jews. Aware of the trial against Galileo, René Descartes lived in the Netherlands, out of reach of the...
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Decazes, Prime Minister Descartes – René Descartes Diane-Capelle – Diane de Dommartin Domrémy-la-Pucelle – Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans Elisabethville...
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Metre (redirect from Meter (unit of length))
questioned the luminiferous aether in 1905, just as Newton had questioned Descartes' Vortex theory in 1687 after Jean Richer's pendulum experiment in Cayenne...
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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
as transcribed at Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens: Tchirnhausen A significant part of the article is based on the corresponding...
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Descartes's Discourse on the Method, she translated the philosopher's work into a poem-video titled "Descartes and the Splendor of. A Real Drama of Everyday...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (redirect from New system of musical notation)
born in the Republic of Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy (now a canton of Switzerland). Since...
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