Question: What philosophy combined with Descartes to push quantum activity in the 20th century?

Is "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 spatialcorporeal component of his metaphysics would come to define the philosophically modern notion of empty space as a quantified extension of volume." the correct answer?
Pick from:
(a). yes;
(b). no;
(b).