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Discourse on the Method Meditations
R D was born at La Haye near Tours on March . He was educated at the Jesuit Coll ge de la Fl che in Anjou, and at the University of Poitiers, where he took a Licenciate in Law in . Two years later he entered the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau in Holland, and met a local schoolmaster, Isaac Beeckman, who fostered his interest in mathematics and physics. After further travels in Europe he settled in Paris in , and came into contact with scientists, theologians, and philosophers in the circle of the Minim friar Marin Mersenne. At the end of Descartes left for Holland, which he made his home until ; he devoted himself to carrying forward the mathematical, scientific, and philosophical work he had begun in Paris.
unpretentious Michel de Montaigne ( – : a figure important to Descartes in more than one way, as we shall see), whose grand-parents were merchants, whose father was an army officer, and yet who felt able to boast that he was the ‘scion of a race famous for its military valour’. On both sides of his family, René’s forebears had
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