Establishes an Egmond residence
· Egmond, North Holland, Netherlands
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported · file Descartes moved from Leiden to the rural Egmond area, seeking the seclusion that characterized much of his Dutch working life. The source says only Egmond; coordinates represent Egmond aan den Hoef, but the precise village or house is uncertain.
