Descartes
[dei'ka:t]
解释:
(noun.) French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650).
编辑:汤姆--From WordNet
例句:
- For Bacon, as for Descartes, natural philosophy was the trunk of the tree of knowledge. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Descartes' interest was not in the several branches of mathematics; rather he wished to establish a uni versal mathematics, a general science relating to order and measurement. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Descartes and Galileo had brought under criticism the ancient idea t hat nature abhors a vacuum. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Through him Descartes was drawn into debate with Hobbes, and with Gassendi, a champion of the experimental method. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- It started from what was essentially the rationalistic philosophy of Descartes and his French successors. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In the century following the death of Copernicus, two great scientists, Bacon and Descartes, compared all knowledge to a tree, of which the separate sciences are branches. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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