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Enlightenment was a time of social, political, and scientific revolution. Many people played an important part in this time. What is the name of the father of the modern scientific method?

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Rene Descartes

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The answer is Rene Descartes.

Explanation: He was a French philosopher and mathematician.

Creator of Cartesian thought, philosophical system that gave rise to Modern Philosophy. He is the author of The Discourse on the Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise published in France in 1637.

Broke with the philosophy of Aristotle, adopted in the academies and, in 1619, proposed a unitary and universal science, laying the foundations of the modern scientific method.

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