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Galileo's sketches of the moon from
Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Galileo Galilei (1564; died January 8, 1642) Italian astronomer;
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems);
Sidereus Nuncius (
The Starry Messenger)
Alfred North Whitehead (1861; died December 30, 1947) British mathematician and philosopher;
A Treatise on Universal Algebra;
Principia Mathematica;
An Introduction to Mathematics;
Science and the Modern World;
Process and Reality
Ibuse Masuji (1898; died July 10, 1993) Japanese author;
Sanshouo (
Salamander and Other Stories);
Kuroi Ame (
Black Rain);
Jon Manjiro Hyoryuki (
John Manjiro, the Cast-Away: His Life and Adventures)
Iris Murdoch (1919; died February 8, 1999) English novelist and philosopher;
Under the Net;
The Black Prince;
The Sea, the Sea
Died this on day:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1781; born January 22, 1729) German writer, philosopher, dramatist, and art critic who wrote
Laocoön and
Nathan the Wise
Richard Feynman (1988; born May 11, 1918) American scientist;
The Feynman Lectures on Physics; memoirs
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and
What Do You Care What Other People Think?;
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist;
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman; Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
Bonus Classic:
Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363-c. 1443) Japanese noh playwright;
Atsumori;
Izutsu
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