"Is that what they’re doing?" Leibniz asked incredulously as George August, * who was five years older than, and twice the size of, his assailant, body-slammed Frederick William † against a smaller and more traditional sort of globe that had been shoved into a corner to make way for the new one. The papier-mâché sphere crumpled inward and Frederick William ended up wearing it on his head, making him look like some antipodean creature with a monstrously oversized brain.