The French polymath René Descartes (1596-1650) lived after the Renaissance, but he personified that age's interest in mathematics, philosophy, art, and the nature of humanity. He made numerous ...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650 ... including doubling our life survival during the 1900s, we nevertheless face extraordinarily poor mental health care as a result of medicine’s isolated focus ...

French philosopher René Descartes' skull may have been filled with peas, in an old practice known as "skull blasting", according to one group of researchers. Descartes, of "I think, therefore I ...

René Descartes once described the pineal gland as “the principal seat of the soul.” Medical knowledge has vastly progressed since his time, though. Here’s what we know about this critical ...

On the way to his first job of the day, he recites what he has learned to his workmates: “What Descartes is saying is ‘I think, therefore I am.’ ’’ “Am what?” someone asks.

So today, on what would have been the 419 th birthday of René Descartes, the French philosopher and mathematician behind the famous line, William & Mary philosophy professors reflect on the man, his ...

The skull of philosopher René Descartes is to be moved from Paris to the school where he studied as a boy. 17th Century Mathmatician and Philosopher René Descartes Prytanée military school near ...

In 1644, the French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes formulated several “laws of nature,” which helped lay the groundwork for classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.