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You lock yourself in a cocklestove-heated room - would you burn your manuscript?
A 23-year-old locks himself in a cocklestove-heated room and wakes claiming a method to remake science - would you burn your manuscript?
You lock yourself in a cocklestove-heated room - would you burn your manuscript?
In this episode, we follow René Descartes from his childhood in La Haye to a revelatory night in Bavaria and the decade he lived in near-total silence. We trace how a feverish winter sleep, mathematical breakthroughs, and the shadow of Galileo shaped a manuscript he then chose not to publish - what would you have done with it?
Person: René Descartes
Date: 10 November 1619…
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