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In terms of his methodology Descartes was largely responding to what he perceived as the dogmatism and marked lack of progress he perceived in the Scholastic tradition within which he was schooled at La Fleche, and his excitement with the new mechanical natural philosophy. His weariness with the largely dialectical scholastic method is what led him to develop the highly systematized epistemology and metaphysics for which he would come to be known.
|Major Contributions=Descartes new methodology and mechanical natural philosophy were of revolutionary importance. They became accepted at Cambridge University in England by 1680, [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 211]] and in France by about 1700, displacing the Aristotelian-medieval system of theories from the [[Scientific Mosaic|scientific mosaic]]. These theories were ultimately fully displaced throughout Europe by those of Descartes theories and by the later theories of Issac Newton (1642-1726). [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 167]]
===Cartesian Method===
