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René Descartes (/ deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART or UK: / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3][11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12][13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously ...
List of burial places of founders of religious traditions This article lists burial places of founders of world religions. If there is no burial place, the place of death is mentioned.
Its cemetery is where René Descartes was first buried in 1650, before his remains were moved to France. Inside the church a memorial to the memory of Descartes was installed by Gustav III. Other famous people buried in the church cemetery include Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated only a block from the church, Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting, physicist Carl Benedicks, and ...
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī[ 1 ][ 3 ] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), [ a ] was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. [ 4 ]: 94 He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire, and lived during the period of the ...
Common Islamic burial rituals. Burial rituals should normally take place as soon as possible and include: [5] Collective bathing of the dead body, [6] except in extraordinary circumstances, as in the battle of Uhud. [7] Enshrouding the dead body in a white cotton or linen cloth. [8] Funeral prayer (صلاة الجنازة).
Baruch (de) Spinoza[b] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing ...
George Sarton, the author of The History of Science, described Avicenna as "one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history" [126] and called him "the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places, and times". He was one of the Islamic world's leading writers in the field of medicine.
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. [7] Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties ...