As a punishment, he was thrown into “jail” – a room in the basement, with only one window made up of ten rows of ten square glass sheets. Once, the boy was caught taking an interest in astronomy. He learned his lesson and decided that his son was not allowed to engage in science and thus taught only courtly skills and saraband dancing. This one signature cost him his entire wealth, wife, and the King’s favor. The boy’s father was so lost in science that he signed an important document with the name of his juvenile brother instead of his own because he was so distracted. One of the indisputable favorites is a young scientist who is the son of a famous Spanish engineer. The main protagonist meets dozens of interesting characters on his way. The book’s topic places it somewhere between an adventure novel, full of uncanny events, and a diary recording a sixty-six day-long journey of a young captain. Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Portrait of Count Jan Potocki, Anton Graff.
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