Imagine what it would be like to live in a world of constant questioning. What would it possibly be like to question even the obvious, such as "is this my hand?" One would think this type of abstract thought would qualify as residing on the brink of insanity. Others merely think of it as unadulterated genius. None the less, this is the type of thought that Descartes produced.
Descartes first great achievement came in the field of mathematics. Descartes' discovery was the art of analytical geometry. When he published this theory he realized it resembled closely a similar theory that caused Galileo to be incarcerated. He then withdrew his manuscript. This idea Descartes didn't agree with. He decided to trick the "religious establishment" by writing a book called Meditations. In this book he encrypted his ideas of physics, which the organization didn't realize.
Descartes then decided to rebuild all previous knowledge through a theory called radical doubt'. Radical......
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