Both Uses of
Descartes
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.†
Chpt 3 *Descartes = René Descartes -- French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
- This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
French philosopher and mathematician who invented the Cartesian coordinate system and broke ground in objective philosophical thought (1596-1650)