I agree he had artificial light, precisely because of the rats at Küstrin story! My question is: was having a candle at 9 pm actually forbidden? To the point where Captain Graurock would have needed to find a loophole to leave him a lit candle after lights-out time? I'm not seeing an order to that effect, so I'm wondering if that story was urban legend already by 1740, as opposed to König getting a more or less accurate version that goes back to Graurock himself.
I had forgotten this story was in Stratemann already, in October 1730! I kind of wonder if there's something about candles in FW's instructions that I either didn't find, or that Preuss isn't telling us.
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Re: Citation questions
Date: 2025-02-16 10:46 pm (UTC)I had forgotten this story was in Stratemann already, in October 1730! I kind of wonder if there's something about candles in FW's instructions that I either didn't find, or that Preuss isn't telling us.