Part II
'I remained the whole day shut up alone in a stove-heated room, where I had complete leisure to occupy myself with my own thoughts'—the origin of the method.
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From Discourse on the Method by René Descartes
The famous autobiographical scene where Descartes, shut up alone in a stove-heated room in Germany, conceives his philosophical project.
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