"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion." The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre, 1907 Zona Gale was born #OTD in 1874. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her books based upon her home town were found to be charming and had an intimate sense of realism, in which she captures the underlying feelings and motivations of her characters. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Zona Gale at PG:

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James Franck was born #OTD in 1882. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". His work included the Franck–Hertz experiment, an important confirmation of the Bohr model of the atom. He promoted the careers of women in physics, notably Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hilde Levi. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science #physics

Johann Heinrich Lambert was born #OTD (or 28) in 1728. Lambert was the first to introduce hyperbolic functions into trigonometry. He invented the first practical hygrometer. In 1760, he published a book on photometry. In Neues Organon, he studied the rules for distinguishing subjective from objective appearances, connecting with his work in optics. And he published his version of the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the Solar System. #books #science #mathematics #physics #astronomy

Guillaume Apollinaire was born #OTD in 1880. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" because of his commitment during the war. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Guillaume Apollinaire at PG:

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Lee de Forest was born #OTD in 1873. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1906. This helped start the Electronic Age, and enabled the development of the electronic oscillator. These made radio broadcasting and long distance telephone lines possible, and led to the development of talking motion pictures, among countless other applications. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science

"There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle." The Chemical History of a Candle (1860) Michael Faraday died #OTD in 1867. English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism. Books by Michaeal Faraday at PG:

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«Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten». El Aleph Jorge Luis Borges was born #OTD in 1899. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Published quite recently. Rights to Jorge Luis Borges’s work go to his wife’s nephews:

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died #OTD in 1806. He is best known for the formulation of Coulomb’s law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or about Coulomb at PG:

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"Les idées une fois jetées dans les esprits sont comme les semences, dont le produit dépend des lois de la nature, et non de la volonté de ceux qui les ont répandues." Georges Cuvier was born #OTD in 1769. He was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. via @npub1kvnp...hm73

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"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." Invictus (1875) William Ernest Henley was born #OTD in 1849. British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s. via @Britannica Books by William Ernest Henley at PG:

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"Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing." In an interview with The Idler (1896) Aubrey Beardsley was born #OTD in 1872. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley at PG:

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Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born #OTD in 1789. He was one of the first to state and rigorously prove theorems of calculus, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He single-handedly founded complex analysis and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. He wrote approximately 800 research articles and five complete textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #books #mathematics

“L’homme n’emporte dans la mort que ce qu’il renonça à posséder dans la vie.” L’Eve future Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam died #OTD in 1889. His best-known works today are his Contes cruels (1883), L'Ève future, a science-fiction novel published in 1886, and the drama Axël, a forerunner of Symbolist theater, published in volume in its unabridged version the year after his death. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam at PG:

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John Flamsteed was born #OTD in 1646. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously. He also made the first recorded observations of Uranus, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a star, and he laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science #astronomy

"Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences." Coming through the swamp Gene Stratton Porter was born #OTD in 1863. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company in 1924. Books by Gene S. Porter at PG:

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Otto Stern was died #OTD in 1969. As an experimental physicist Stern contributed to the discovery of spin quantization in the Stern–Gerlach experiment with Walther Gerlach. With his life-long collaborator Immanuel Estermann, he demonstrated of the wave nature of atoms and molecules; measurement of atomic magnetic moments; discovery of the proton's magnetic moment; and development of the molecular beam method which is utilized for the technique of molecular beam epitaxy. #science #physics

Pierre de Fermat was born #OTD in 1601. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. #books #mathematics

"The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!" Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, 1957 Georgette Heyer was born #OTD in 1902. Heyer essentially invented the historical romance & created the subgenre of the Regency romance. Despite her popularity and success, Heyer was largely ignored by critics other than Dorothy L. Sayers. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Georgette Heyer at PG:

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"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more." Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) Thomas Edward Lawrence was born #OTD in 1888. He became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books about T.E. Lawrence at PG:

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Macbethad mac Findláech died #OTD in 1057. In Shakespeare's play, which is based mainly upon Raphael Holinshed's account and probably first performed in 1606, Macbeth is initially a valiant and loyal general to the elderly King Duncan. After being manipulated by Three Witches and his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth murders Duncan and usurps the throne. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books about Macbeth at PG:

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