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René Descartes
Renatus Cartesius la
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
- Child of Joachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard
- Dated 31 March 1596 CE – 11 February 1650 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
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Family
The family of René Descartes
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 5
Family 5
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650) Taught 2
Connections
How René Descartes connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 16
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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was influenced by Anselm of Canterbury 11th‑century Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Canterbury, philosopher and theologian -
was influenced by Aristotle Greek philosopher - was influenced by Francisco Suárez
- was influenced by Marin Mersenne
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was influenced by Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher -
was influenced by Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274) -
was influenced by William of Ockham English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347) -
influenced Benedictus de Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632-1677) -
influenced Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
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influenced Christina of Sweden Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689) -
influenced Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831) -
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influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716) -
influenced Henri Bergson French philosopher (1859–1941) -
influenced Hermann Cohen German philosopher (1842–1918) -
influenced Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727) -
influenced Nicolas Malebranche French philosopher
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 10 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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