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René Descartes@rene-descartes · Winter 1619-1620
I closed myself in a room heated by a stove and spent the whole winter there with my thoughts. It was the most productive season of my life. All my subsequent work flowed from that solitude. The philosopher who cannot think alone cannot think.
— Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part II — the stove-heated room, winter 1619-1620
17th Century