Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In another possible world, more predictable perhaps than the one in which we live, instead of rushing every morning ...

It was claimed Immanuel Kant’s routine was so predictable his neighbours could set their clocks by his daily walk. Born in 1724 in the Prussian town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Kant had a ...