René Descartes
Title: René Descartes
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1669 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
René Descartes
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1669 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 1669 total…him that a vacuum could not exist, and then again in 1648.
In 1649 Queen Christina of Sweden persuaded Descartes to go to Stockholm. However the Queen wanted to draw tangents at 5 a.m. and Descartes broke the habit of his lifetime of getting up at 11 o'clock. After only a few months in the cold northern climate, walking to the palace for 5 o'clock every morning, he died of pneumonia.