René Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

9 dated entries naming René Descartes, drawn from 8 separate years between 1596 CE and 1650 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

1596March 31 – René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650)source

17th century

1616René Descartes, at age 20, graduates in civil and canon law at the University of Poitiers, where he becomes disillusioned with books, preferring to seek truths from "le grand livre du monde." His thesis defense may be written in December.source
1616Isaac Beeckman, Dutch intellectual and future friend of René Descartes, leaves his candle factory in Zierikzee, to return to Middelburg to study medicine.source
1619November 10 – While stationed along the Danube river with Bavarian troops, René Descartes, according to his biographer Adrien Baillet, has a series of dreams giving him the idea of applying the mathematical method to philosophy.source
1637René Descartes promotes intellectual rigour in his Discourse on the Method, and introduces the Cartesian coordinate system in its appendix La Géométrie (published in Leiden).source
1641René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.source
1644Philosopher René Descartes publishes Principia Philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy) in Amsterdam.source
1649Dutch artist Frans Hals paints a portrait of René Descartes.source
1650February 11 – René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)source