1. Experiences the dream night at Neuburg

    · Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany

    Experiences the dream night at Neuburg
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    While wintering with Bavarian forces, Descartes experienced the celebrated sequence of dreams that he interpreted as directing his intellectual vocation. Some scholarship places the episode at Ulm rather than Neuburg; the date is more secure than the location.

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