baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/Session 4 :: Between Renaissance and Age of Reason/Rene Descartes (c. 1596 - 1650 A.D.)
- polymath
- at 23-years of age, his dreams pose him in front of a question: Quod vitae sectabor iter?
- establishement of scientific method (based on "doubitatio")
- "Cogito ergo sum", mind-body dualism
- cartesian coordinate system, analytic geometry ...