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Descartes mourning his daughter. Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter.. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van der Strom, [1] a domestic servant of Thomas Sergeant — a bookshop owner and associate of Descartes at whose house in Amsterdam Descartes lodged on 15 October 1634.
The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but first published (Amsterdam, 1684) in Dutch translation in a ...
In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, described by René Descartes in his La Géométrie, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes in its coefficients. The number of positive real roots is at most the number of sign changes in the sequence of polynomial's coefficients (omitting zero coefficients), and the difference ...
Tang is an American drink mix brand that was formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell [1] and General Foods Corporation chemist William Bruce James [2] in 1957, and first marketed in powdered form in 1959.
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The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]
Irene Blecker Rosenfeld (born May 3, 1953) [2] is an American businesswoman who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mondelēz International. [3] Rosenfeld's career began at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, a New York City advertising agency.