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Handel (gesturing) and King George I (under canopy)
during the premier of Handel's Water Music |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Averroes (1126; died December 10, 1198) Andalusian polymath;
Tahafut al-tahafut (
The Incoherence of the Incoherence);
Kitab fasl al-maqal (
The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)
Christiaan Huygens (1629; died July 8, 1695) Dutch mathematician and scientist known as an astronomer and physicist, among other things. He discovered Saturn's moon, Titan, and invented the pendulum clock. He was a proponent of the wave theory of light, and the
Treatise on Light is one of his major works.
Died on this day:
George Frederick Handel (1759; born February 23, 1685) German/British composer;
Water Music;
Music for the Royal Fireworks;
Messiah
Rachel Carson (1964; born May 27, 1907) American biologist;
The Sea Around Us;
The Edge of the Sea;
Silent Spring
Simone de Beauvoir (1986; born January 9, 1908) French novelist and philosopher;
She Came to Stay;
The Second Sex;
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Bonus Classic:
Yuan Mei (1716-1797) Chinese author;
Zibuyu (
What the Master Would Not Discuss), ghost stories;
Suiyuan Shidan (
Recipes from Sui Garden), a cookbook
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