Dies at Chanut's Stockholm residence
· Västerlånggatan, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic · file After a severe respiratory illness, Descartes died at the residence of Pierre Chanut, ending his brief Swedish period. The documented residence was on Västerlånggatan, but its exact house number and therefore the exact death-site coordinate remain uncertain.
