My thoughts on this legend.
Through my own thoughts, I personally think Descartes was a very talented man. He was a brilliant French Scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He discovered many new ways of science and proved some science wrong. He created many useful tools that are used to this day, and wrote many important books that are still read to this day. He started from the bottom and came all the way up to the top. His life was hard, and tough, but once he got a great education his life started to go uphill instead of downhill. If I could travel back into time, I would travel to the 1600's to meet Descartes.