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    René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 ...
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    first two inventors of the mechanical calculator. Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal...
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    individuals such as Witelo, John Peckham, Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes, and Johannes Kepler. The Camera Obscura was used as a drawing aid since...
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    Lionel Philips since his father's death in 1838) of either 6,000 or 5,000 francs he allegedly used a third of it to arm Belgian workers who were planning...
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    History of Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Magdeburg hemispheres Elisabeth of the Palatinate, philosopher, critic of René Descartes' dualistic metaphysics Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, author...
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    Ion Heliade Rădulescu (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    philosophical writings of, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Roger Bacon, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Immanuel...
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