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Immanuel 'the Königsberg clock' Kant (2015)

36 points by rishabhd 8mo ago

libraryofbabel 8mo ago
> Having been born in Königsberg in 1724, he never left the small German city, dying there in 1804 aged 79 never having once gone further than the city’s limits. Totally false! Slander! He once went as far as the village of Jarnołtowo, a whole 60 miles from Königsberg![0] But yeah. Maybe not one of history’s greatest travelers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno%C5%82towo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno%C5%82towo
- HWR_14 8mo ago
  He made plans for a trip to Paris to read a specific book, but the librarians he had been corresponding with mailed it to him as a sign of respect for his time.
- dmd 8mo ago
  It's because he got stuck on the bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsbe...
inasio 8mo ago
Reminds me of Emilio Salgari (late 19th century, Italy's Jules Verne), one of my favorite authors growing up. He has many books on Malaysian pirates, Wild west cowboys (he's apparently considered the grandfather of the spaghetti western), adventures in India, etc. Always thought he must have been an adventurer, or at least a sailor. He never left Verona.
- pseudohadamard 8mo ago
  This persistent until quite recently. My neighbour told me his mother never travelled more than 15km from the town where she was born. Apart from a pilgrimage to Lourdes my grandmother would have been about the same.
  - cafard 8mo ago
    The FBI used to like to hire the young from southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, and such places: generally the kids wouldn't have traveled at all far from their birthplaces, and so security checks were that much easier.
svat 8mo ago
> We should note – without seeing it as physiologically symbolic of their respective philosophies – that Kant was constipated, while Nietzsche suffered from compulsive vomiting. To the contrary, I'm pretty sure it is more than symbolic. Surely it matches their temperament (respectively) and thereby their philosophies.
- routmac 8mo ago
  Not so regular after all eh?

36 points by rishabhd 8mo ago

> Having been born in Königsberg in 1724, he never left the small German city, dying there in 1804 aged 79 never having once gone further than the city’s limits. Totally false! Slander! He once went as far as the village of Jarnołtowo, a whole 60 miles from Königsberg![0] But yeah. Maybe not one of history’s greatest travelers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno%C5%82towo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno%C5%82towo

HWR_14 8mo ago
He made plans for a trip to Paris to read a specific book, but the librarians he had been corresponding with mailed it to him as a sign of respect for his time.
dmd 8mo ago
It's because he got stuck on the bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsbe...

inasio 8mo ago

Reminds me of Emilio Salgari (late 19th century, Italy's Jules Verne), one of my favorite authors growing up. He has many books on Malaysian pirates, Wild west cowboys (he's apparently considered the grandfather of the spaghetti western), adventures in India, etc. Always thought he must have been an adventurer, or at least a sailor. He never left Verona.

pseudohadamard 8mo ago
This persistent until quite recently. My neighbour told me his mother never travelled more than 15km from the town where she was born. Apart from a pilgrimage to Lourdes my grandmother would have been about the same.
- cafard 8mo ago
  The FBI used to like to hire the young from southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, and such places: generally the kids wouldn't have traveled at all far from their birthplaces, and so security checks were that much easier.

svat 8mo ago

> We should note – without seeing it as physiologically symbolic of their respective philosophies – that Kant was constipated, while Nietzsche suffered from compulsive vomiting. To the contrary, I'm pretty sure it is more than symbolic. Surely it matches their temperament (respectively) and thereby their philosophies.

routmac 8mo ago
Not so regular after all eh?