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This caricature of Darwin from Punch (1882) was
used as the cover illustration for Stephen Jay
Gould's first set of collected essays from Natural
History Magazine, entitled Ever Since Darwin. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839; died April 19, 1914) American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist known for logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics
Hilda Doolittle ("H.D.") (1886; died September 27, 1961) American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for poems composed of clear, sharp imagery
Mary Oliver (1935; died January 17, 2019) American poet known for looking deeply into nature; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1984)
Stephen Jay Gould (1941; died May 20, 2002) American scientist and historian of science who wrote
Ontogeny and Phylogeny;
Ever Since Darwin and other collections of essays from
Natural History Magazine;
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History;
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox;
Punctuated Equilibrium
Died on this day:
Al-Hariri of Basra (1122; born unknown date, 1054) Arab poet and scholar;
Maqamat al-Hariri (
The Assemblies of al-Hariri)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1797; born April 27, 1759) English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights; known for
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Bonus Classic:
Hesiod (between 750 and 650 BCE) Greek poet who wrote
Theogony (about the births of the gods) and
Works and Days (on agriculture)
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