THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”

— Arnold Toynbee

BIRTHDAYS:

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, whose insatiable curiosity and innovative thinking bridged art and science in unprecedented ways.

1637 Valentin Molitor, Swiss composer. Congratulamini

1651 Domenico Gabrielli, Italian Baroque composer. Sonata in G Major for cello

1688 Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist, harpsichordist, organist, kapellmeister, and composer. Sonata in C Major

1707 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and engineer renowned for his prolific output—often regarded as the most prolific mathematician in history—and foundational contributions to virtually every major branch of mathematics and several areas of physics during the Enlightenment era.

1741 Charles Willson Peale, American painter.

1843 Henry James, American-British author.

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