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It’s amazing how much difference a century makes. From 1650, roughly the time this Cromwell comes from, to 1750, when Frederick was just coming off the Silesian Wars, Prussia went from a running joke of the sophisticated world to the cornerstone of all diplomatic thinking about the future of central Europe. Of course, that’ll happen when your succession of kings includes The Great Elector AND Frederick the Great…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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I’ve always wanted to make a University RPG where you pick up levels in academic disciplines, so you could be a Level 4 German Linguist but a Level 10 Differential Equation Wizard. Anyway, if the scale is 1-10, I don’t think there’s any question about putting Descartes as a 9 on Maths – perhaps not a Gauss or Euler level, but in terms of importance for modern mathematics, he’s damn up there. Philosophically I was debating between 7 and 8… on the one hand you’ve got an incredibly bold destructive philosophy, on the other you have, the other stuff… Of course, if he’s a 7, who’s a 10? Probably Nietzsche… ummm…. I’d say Hume, but that’s because I’m a soulless determinist so he’s important to me. Other nominations? Fire ‘em up on our Twitter!
– Count Dolby von Luckner