Mary-Kate: Hey Rene!
Rene: Hello Mary-Kate. What a beautiful name you have.
Mary-Kate: Oh, thank you! Could you tell me a few things about you?
Rene: Anything. Ask away.
Mary-Kate: Alright well one, what about the day you were born?
Rene: March 31st, 1596. I was born in La Haye
Mary-Kate: Alright. What about your life?
Rene: Just anything?
Mary-Kate: Whatever you feel is important.
Rene: Well, I went to college from 1606 to 1614. Then in 1618 I joined the army. And with that army, I went to germany. November 10th, I had a series of weird dreams. I thought of them as signs that I would found a universal science. November of 1628, I was in paris. People were talking awful about Euclid, a man of which I honored. Within the same year, I moved to Holland. I produced The World, a science book. But when I was about to publish it in 1634, I learned of how Galileo had just been condemned by the church for talking about similar things. I quickly decided to hold off on the publishing.
Mary-Kate: That was probably a good choice on your part.
Rene: Yes indeed. Then in 1638, I published a book on math and science. It was actually written in French. Then in 1641 I published yet another book.
Mary-Kate: You were awfully busy writing weren’t you?
Rene: Terribly. I started more thoughts and ideas about the solar system, and they became more popular as the years went on. When I died on February 11th of 1650, people remembered me as a famous French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher.
Mary-Kate: That doesn’t sound too bad.
Rene: It really was. Just a lot of work, but I enjoyed it.
Mary-Kate: Well thank you for everything Rene.
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