From the Wikipedia article on James Stirling:
“From Oxford he made his way to Venice, where he occupied himself as a professor of mathematics. [...] Fearing assassination on account of having discovered a trade secret of the glassmakers of Venice, he returned with Newton's help to London about the year 1725.”
There’s something half terrifying and half Pythonesque about the idea of gangster glassmakers.
Greg Egan
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