Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: Broccoli, you say?

[mildred_of_midgard]

Contribution from raven_aorla, writer of mob boss fics (with whom I absolutely had to share this gem):

raven_aorla: I bet Algarotti got a romanesco. They are related to broccoli but are so much more intriguing

me: *googles* Oh, yes!

me: First documented in Italy!

raven_aorla: but look at the fractals, Fritz! I had to!

raven_aorla: "Produces a stunning apple-green whorled head with better taste and texture than most of the finest broccolis. Widely grown and prized in Italy."

raven_aorla: And presumably also loved by math nerds.

Re: Broccoli, you say?

[cahn]

raven_aorla: And presumably also loved by math nerds.

Lol, indeed I have never actually eaten a romanesco or seen them in RL but the one reference I have seen to them was a picture in a recreational math book :) (I have forgotten which one, could have been one my daughter was reading)

Re: Broccoli, you say?

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well, what we know is that it's *definitely* what Algarotti got Fritz. :D

I had never heard of them! Or if I had run across them in a fractal context somewhere, which I might have, I had forgotten.

Re: Broccoli, you say?

[selenak]

That is fantastic! And yes, absolutely, exactly what Algarotti brings home.