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Descartes is a famous French philosopher, physicist, mathematician and theologian. He made an important contribution to the development of modern mathematics, because he formulated the geometric coordinate system and was known as the father of analytic geometry. Together with the British philosopher Francis Bacon, he initiated the "epistemological" turn of modern western philosophy.