Find out the answers to the following questions using your netbook for research:
- What is Descarte’s most famous saying?
- What did he see on a placard in the town of Breda, that challenged him?
- What branch of mathematics is named after Descartes?
- What habit did he give up up in the last year of his life?
- Now find a map of the school and create a set of cartesian co-ordinates on it. Work out the co-ordinates of the most important places in the school.