René Descartes

René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) ek mashuur French philosopher aur physicist rahaa. Uu dui khaas buk He physics aur philosophy ke uppar likhis rahaa.

Western Philosophy 17th-century philosophy
René Descartes. Ii chapa ke Frans Halsutaris hae, 1648.
Name	René Descartes
Birth	31 March 1596 La Haye en Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France
Death	11 February 1650 (aged 53) Stockholm, Sweden
School/tradition	Cartesianism, Rationalism, Foundationalism
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Science, Mathematics
Notable ideas	Cogito ergo sum, Methodic Doubt, Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesian dualism
Influences	Plato, Aristotle, Ibn al-Haytham, Averroes, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Anselm of Canterbury, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Francisco Suárez, Marin Mersenne, Sextus Empiricus, Michel de Montaigne, Duns Scotus
Influenced	Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Antoine Arnauld, Nicolas Malebranche, Pascal

Descartes aur physics

Aapan buk Discourse on Method (1637) me Descartes scientific method ke baare me likhis jiske uu apne se banais rahaa. Uu shapes (Geometry), light (Dioptrics), aur weather (Meteorology) ke baare me bhi likhis hae. Uske baad uu ek rakam se shapes ke coordinates se describe kare ke suruu karis aur ek aur theory banais jiske rainbow ke naam se jaana jaawe hae. Descartes ke physics ke baad me Sir Isaac Newton bhi kaam me laais jon ki uske aur James Hook ke baare me likis hae ki: "Agar jo ham duur talak dekhe sakaa hae tab ham giant ke kandhaa pe kharraa rahaa!"

Descartes aur philosophy

Aapan buk Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) me Descartes aapan scientific method ke kaam me laae ke philosophical sawaal ke dekhis hae. Uu skepticism ke virod me bahas karis hae.