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Authors René Descartes
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About The World


The World, also called Treatise on the Light, is a book by René Descartes. Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology. Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular in the 17th century.

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A former Google employee was briefly The Second -richest person, ranked in China, after an increase in sales on its e-commerce business, Pinduoduo.

Colin Huang was worth $45. 4bn (£36. 4bn) by, on Sunday, ahead of Alibaba 's Jack Ma , but behind Tencent's Pony Ma.

Mr Huang, an Intern at Microsoft and spent was earlier then three years as an engineer at Google.

"Those three years were incredibly valuable for me," he said.

“Google has me contributed far More Than I have to. "

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In his 2016 blog, Mr. Huang said, some former Google employees had been compromised quickly wealthy.

"you suddenly got too much money, and lost work incentives and began searching fun and new career," he wrote.

“it took Many years, and you wasted your precious time when you probably were other outstanding achievements. "

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Source of news: bbc.com

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