Associations to the word «Descartes»

Wiktionary

DESCARTES, proper noun. A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650.
DESCARTES LAW, noun. (optics) Snell's law

Dictionary definition

DESCARTES, 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).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats