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Mathematics
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Explanation for his theories
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His theories belong to the rationalist tradition, which attributes knowledge about the world to our ability to think rather than to our experiences, as the empiricists believe. He posited a clear distinction between the body and mind, which is referred to as the Cartesian.
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Gauss and Poincaré
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In other words, he sought
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Galilei wanted to prove instead that the sun moved around its axis, that motion was as natural to an object as the state of rest. In other words, for Galilei, celestial bodies,for Galilei, celestial bodies, including the Earth, were naturally inclined to move in circles.
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Relativity
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About matter and motion
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Following Galilei and Descartes, during the seventeenth century the philosophy of space and time revolved around the ideas of Gottfried Leibniz, a German philosopher–mathematician, and Isaac Newton, who set out two opposing theories.
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Einstein
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Foundation or a mechanical
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The Cartesian notion of space is closely linked to his theories about the nature of the body, mind and matter. He is famously known for his "cogito ergo sum", or the idea that we can only be certain of the fact that we can doubt, and therefore think and therefore exist.
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