THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.”
― Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet

BIRTHDAYS:

1605 Francesco Sacrati, composer. La Finta Pazza

1743 Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician

1783 Samuel Prout, painter

1819 Léon Foucault — physicist

1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian and Soviet scientist, inventor, and theorist widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics, alongside Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth.

1916 Mary Stewart, author

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