Psychology 3950F/G Lecture Notes - Analytic Geometry, Organism, Julien Offray De La Mettrie
22 Nov 2013
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400 ad to 1000 ad (dark ages: represented a time that was little focused on intellectual matters, when intellectual mattes emerged, they focused on aristotle. Renaissance (1450 to about 1600: flourishing in growth in science and art that was pretty much unprecedented in the western world, galileo, copernicus, and newton in science and michelangelo and da vinci in art. 1596-1650; was born in la haye in touraine, france. Liked mathematics: found them pure due to certitude and evidence of reason. Travelled and ended up in holland (1628-1649) Discourse on method (1637) one of his most important books: the method : mathematical reason was the basis of all knowledge. Meditations on the first philosophy (1641) another important book of his. At one and the same time, mathematical, deductive, procedural, and rationalistic : mathematical. Invented analytic geometry combining of geometry and algebra. Never accept anything for true which you didn"t clearly know to be such.
