1632
Move to Deventer
Descartes moves to Deventer and discusses his physics with the scholar Henry Reneri.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Deventer in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Descartes moves to Deventer and discusses his physics with the scholar Henry Reneri.
Descartes develops a mechanistic account of human physiology in the Treatise on Man.
Descartes prepares The World for publication as a comprehensive statement of his natural philosophy.
Descartes becomes the father of Francine, whose mother is Helene Jans.
Provenance
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