Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him.... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.


A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton]. (ed. 1824)

Voltaire Quotes

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did...

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did...

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did...

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did...