THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.”

— Antoine Lavoisier

BIRTHDAYS:

1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, scientist, mathematician, and astronomer (first rigorous proof that π is irrational)

1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (scientist; identified oxygen and hydrogen)

1749 Johann Ernst Rembt, German organist and composer, born in Suhl, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Fughetta B-Dur für Orgel, and Trio in F, and Fughetta in C

1873 Lee De Forest, inventor (Audion vacuum tube)

1904 Christopher Isherwood, novelist

1906 Albert Sabin, physician and inventor of the oral polio vaccine.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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