I love history, history of business, nations, people. These days I am reading the history of the men of mathematics, and it is very amusing to me when I string together time timelines of these people.
One interesting part:
A few prominent people whose lives partly overlapped that of Descartes. ( born March 31, 1596)
Fermat and Pascal were his contemporaries.
Shakespeare died when Descartes was 20.
Descartes outlived Galileo by eight years
Newton was influenced by Descartes and was eight years old when Descartes died.
Descartes was 12years old when Milton was born.
William Harvey influenced Descartes and outlived him by seven years
William Gilbert died when Descartes was seven.

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