January 19, 2025

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.”

— Auguste Comte

BIRTHDAYS:

1736 James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

1798 Auguste Comte, French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.

1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.

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