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The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology. Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural ...
t. e. 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 ...
The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (commonly referred to as Descartes) is a Canadian multinational technology company specializing in logistics software, supply chain management software, and cloud -based services for logistics businesses. Descartes is perhaps best known for its abrupt and unexpected turnaround in the mid-2000s after coming close ...
Mondelez International, Inc. (/ ˌ m ɒ n d ə ˈ l iː z / MON-də-LEEZ), [3] styled as Mondelēz International, is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding, beverage and snack food company based in Chicago. [4] Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26.5 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries. [5]
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £ ...
Le Monde de M. Descartes ou Le Traité de la Lumière; Usage on es.wikipedia.org El mundo (Descartes) Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Traité du monde et de la lumière; Usage on fr.wikisource.org Le Monde (Descartes) Usage on pl.wikipedia.org Świat albo Traktat o świetle; Usage on tr.wikipedia.org Dünya (Descartes) Usage on www.wikidata.org Q652038
The Lighthouse at the End of the World. The Lighthouse at the End of the World (French: Le Phare du bout du monde) is an adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Verne wrote the first draft in 1901. [1] It was first published posthumously in 1905. The plot of the novel involves piracy in the South Atlantic during the mid-19th century, with ...
A unit cube with a hole cut through it, large enough to allow Prince Rupert's cube to pass. In geometry, Prince Rupert's cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through a unit cube without splitting it into separate pieces. Its side length is approximately 1.06, 6% larger than the side length 1 of the unit cube through which ...