Descartes invented the analytic or coordinate type of this, from the Greek for "earth measure"
[DOC] [TLE] November 14, 2008 [PAR] ... Descartes suppressed his own work on similar ideas Galileo Descartes 
invented the analytic or coordinate type of this, from the Greek for "earth measure
"... [DOC] [TLE] Exploring Analytic Geometry with Mathematica - Wolfram Library ... [PAR] By combining the power of Mathematica with an analytic geometry software 
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