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This year in history
In the year 1650

February
11th

French philosopher, Rene Descartes, died at the age of 53. He is considered as one of the most influential philosophers and mathematicians of all time. He was also known as Cartesius and the geometry & algebra, Cartesian coordinate system, is named after him.

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