buddy larsen
2010-07-19 19:13:38
bob/52/; that was Sven Knost, burned at the stake for his work in herring net geometry. prior to him, herring nets were not criss-crossed lines, but were just one long continuous line. These were so inefficient that often the scandinavian fishermen just left the nets on the dock and simply “went through the motions” out on the herring banks, throwing and retrieving imaginary nets while mainly drinking beer.
