I want to know the answer to the following question:
What philosophy combined with Descartes to push quantum activity in the 20th century?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Although Descartes agreed with the contemporary position, that a vacuum does not occur in nature, the success of his namesake coordinate system and more implicitly, the spatial–corporeal component of his metaphysics would come to define the philosophically modern notion of empty space as a quantified extension of volume.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no