"Kant's regularity was probably - at least at first - due more to Green's punctuality than to that of Kant, for it was said that the neighbors could set their clocks in accordance with the time at which Kant left Green's house in the evening: at seven o'clock the visit was over." (p. 155)
"Green, Joseph (1727-1786), British merchant in Königsberg and the closest friend of
Kant. Hippel is said to have used Green as a model for his Man of the Clock, a character who lives by inviolable maxims and strictly by the clock. Later writers transferred
these characteristics to Kant." (pp. xi-xii)
Kuehn, Manfred, Kant: A Biography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
clock-component (dial)
Meissen Porcelain Factory
ca. 1745-1750
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