Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in a small town in Touraine called La Haye, now called La Haye-Descartes or simply Descartes (3:1). Rene was the second of two sons and one daughter (4:1). When he was about the age of nine, his father sent him to a new Jesuit College, Henri IV at La Fleche (3:1). Due to his delicate health, Descartes was allowed to sleep late in the mornings, a custom to which he always followed (4:1). …showed first 75 words of 1175 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1175 total…teach her about his philosophy. He came to Stockholm during the brutal winter of 1650 and caught pneumonia in February. After more than a week of suffering, he died on February 11, 1650 (2:2). Works Cited 1. Barrett, William. Death of the Soul from Descartes to the Computer. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1986. 2. http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/descartes.html 3. http://www.spu.edu/~hawk/descaresh.html 4. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB