Good-bye Descartes?

DOI10.2307/2691278MaRDI QIDQ4340244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Keith Devlin

Publication date 20 April 1998

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2691278

zbMATH Keywords

Cartesian systemsDescartes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

Review text

This paper is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of René Descartes and gives a potted biography chronicling the rise of ``Cartesian Science based on the work of not only Descartes but also Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon. The author describes not only the change in scientific method but also the change in philosophy and approach to discovery.

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