THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.”

— Louis Pasteur

BIRTHDAYS:

1571 Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer renowned for formulating the three laws of planetary motion, which mathematically described the orbits of planets around the Sun and laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.

1572 Jan Campanus, Czech composer and humanist, born in Vodňany, Kingdom of Bohemia. Rorando coeli

1654 Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and early contributor to calculus, probability theory, and infinite series, renowned for introducing the term “integral” and developing the law of large numbers.

1771 George Cayley, English engineer, inventor, and aviator recognized as the father of aeronautics for his systematic application of scientific principles to heavier-than-air flight.

1822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his pioneering work in microbiology, vaccination, and food preservation, which laid the foundations of modern medicine and disproved long-held theories like spontaneous generation.

MISCELLANEOUS:

VERY PECULIAR. Uranus’s small moons are dark, red, and water-poor.

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration