“From what has already been said we have established that all the bodies in the universe are composed of one and the same matter, which is divisible into indefinitely many parts, and is in fact divided into a large number of parts which move in different directions and have a sort of circular motion; moreover, the same quantity of motion is always preserved in the universe,” a famous quote by René Descartes. Descartes was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century, is sometimes considered the first of the modern school of mathematics, and dubbed the name as "The Father of Modern Philosophy" (1). Since Descartes believed that all truths were ultimately linked, he sought to uncover the meaning of the natural world with a rational approach, through science and mathematics. …show more content…
Although Descartes’s birth place was La Haye, which is now named Descartes, his family connections lie south across the Creuse River in Poitou (3). His father, Joachim, owned farms and houses in Châtellerault and Poitiers, France. Because Joachim was a councillor in the Parlement of Brittany in Rennes, Descartes inherited a modest rank of nobility. After Descartes’s mother, Jeanne Brochard, passed away when “The Father of Modern Philosophy” was only one, his father remarried in Rennes, leaving him in La Haye to be raised by his maternal grandmother, and after his grandma passed away his great-uncle in Châtellerault (2). Traveling around the country was Descartes’s life and education