The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter: Typical 1653 PhD: after surviving childhood, fourthborn son of an Earl, he was packed off to Oxford at age 15. After three years of approximately constant drunkenness and five duels with Nonconformists, he was granted his doctorate in Theology. He died of plague in 1666, £18,972 in debt (gambling)

Typical 1653 PhD: after surviving childhood, fourthborn son of an Earl, he was packed off to Oxford at age 15. After three years of approximately constant drunkenness and five duels with Nonconformists, he was granted his doctorate in Theology. He died of plague in 1666, £18,972 in debt (gambling)

“Baroque Cycle” by Neal Stephenson ass post (complimentary)

every PhD holder since then has wanted to replicate this career, with limited success

It's a lot easier if you can arrange for a couple of your brothers to get chopped into tiny pieces by Roundheads

step one: hope at least two of nine survive to adulthood

I’ll always think of GE Moore’s apparent confusion about the requirements for a doctorate and why Cambridge was even awarding them in philosophy when he sat on Wittgenstein’s committee in ‘29.

Johannes Kepler had to take a leave from his astrology & fortune telling research to (successfully!) defend his mother from an accusation of witchcraft en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathari...

Katharina Kepler - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I am reading against the gods right now and every man of letters is just obsessed with gambling

❤️

this is art

From the Wiki page of the Baroque Venetian composer Giuseppe Tartini:

Just wild how many, if not most, portraits of men from the late 17th century & early 18th century are clean shaven.

This is how far academia has fallen

Post