Cartesian
nounEtymology From the New Latin Cartesiānus, from Cartesius (“René Descartes”).
1
One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.
2
Rare The Chartreux cat.
Cartesian
adjUK /kɑː(ɹ)ˈtiːziən/ · US /kɑɹˈti.ʒən/
Etymology From the New Latin Cartesiānus, from Cartesius (“René Descartes”).
1
Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
- Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:
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Cartography, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Sciences Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.
- Synonyms
- Descartesean, Descartesian, Descartean, Descartian
- Derived terms
- bicartesian, Cartesian circle, Cartesian coordinates, Cartesian diver, Cartesian doubt, Cartesian equation, Cartesian grid, Cartesian plane, Cartesian product, Cartesian space, Cartesian square, cocartesian