THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

BIRTHDAYS:

1609 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor.

1693 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer and organist, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. Sonate nr. 3 Sarabanda, Allegro Assai

1748 Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter.

1797 Mary Shelley, English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

1860 Isaac Levitan, Russian classical painter.

1871 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as “the father of nuclear physics”, and “the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday”.

1907 John Mauchly, American physicist who with J. Presper Eckert, designed the first general purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 29 – September 7

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration