"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..."
Frankenstein, 1818
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born #OTD in 1797. She met the young Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and eloped with him to France in July 1814. After her husband’s death in 1822, she returned to England and devoted herself to publicizing his writings and to educating their only surviving child, Percy.
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Maru Shelley also wrote historical novels, such as Valperga (1823), Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826). Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837) are her final two novels.
"I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter."
"Cathode rays" Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897).
J. J. Thomson died #OTD in 1940. He is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron, the discovery of the first subatomic particle, isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by J. J. Thomson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322
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One of Thomson's students was Ernest Rutherford, who later succeeded him as Cavendish Professor of Physics. Six of Thomson's research assistants and junior colleagues (Charles Glover Barkla, Niels Bohr, Max Born, William Henry Bragg, Owen Willans Richardson and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson) won Nobel Prizes in physics, and two (Francis William Aston and Ernest Rutherford) won Nobel prizes in chemistry. Thomson's son (George Paget Thomson) also won the 1937 Nobel Prize in physics.
"I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter."
"Cathode rays" Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897).
J. J. Thomson died #OTD in 1940. He is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron, the discovery of the first subatomic particle, isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by J. J. Thomson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322
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"All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial."
Ernest Rutherford was born #OTD in 1871. Rutherford is known as "the father of nuclear physics" because his research, and work done under him as laboratory director, established the nuclear structure of the atom & the essential nature of radioactive decay as a nuclear process. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by Ernest Rutherford at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53014
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..."
Frankenstein, 1818
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born #OTD in 1797. She met the young Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and eloped with him to France in July 1814. After her husband’s death in 1822, she returned to England and devoted herself to publicizing his writings and to educating their only surviving child, Percy.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France #OTD in 1789.
The Declaration was initially drafted by the Marquis de Lafayette, but the majority of the final draft came from the Abbé Sieyès. Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, human rights are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre, 1907
Zona Gale was born #OTD in 1874. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her books based upon her home town were found to be charming and had an intimate sense of realism, in which she captures the underlying feelings and motivations of her characters. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by Zona Gale at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3531
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James Franck was born #OTD in 1882.
He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".
His work included the Franck–Hertz experiment, an important confirmation of the Bohr model of the atom. He promoted the careers of women in physics, notably Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hilde Levi. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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Johann Heinrich Lambert was born #OTD (or 28) in 1728.
Lambert was the first to introduce hyperbolic functions into trigonometry. He invented the first practical hygrometer. In 1760, he published a book on photometry. In Neues Organon, he studied the rules for distinguishing subjective from objective appearances, connecting with his work in optics. And he published his version of the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the Solar System.
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Guillaume Apollinaire was born #OTD in 1880.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" because of his commitment during the war. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by Guillaume Apollinaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6075
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Lee de Forest was born #OTD in 1873.
He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1906. This helped start the Electronic Age, and enabled the development of the electronic oscillator. These made radio broadcasting and long distance telephone lines possible, and led to the development of talking motion pictures, among countless other applications. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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"There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle."
The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)
Michael Faraday died #OTD in 1867. English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.
Books by Michaeal Faraday at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541
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«Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten».
El Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges was born #OTD in 1899. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Published quite recently. Rights to Jorge Luis Borges’s work go to his wife’s nephews:
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died #OTD in 1806.
He is best known for the formulation of Coulomb’s law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by or about Coulomb at PG:
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"Les idées une fois jetées dans les esprits sont comme les semences, dont le produit dépend des lois de la nature, et non de la volonté de ceux qui les ont répandues."
Georges Cuvier was born #OTD in 1769.
He was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62918
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"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
Invictus (1875)
William Ernest Henley was born #OTD in 1849. British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s. via @Britannica
Books by William Ernest Henley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/369
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"Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing."
In an interview with The Idler (1896)
Aubrey Beardsley was born #OTD in 1872.
His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by or illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41820
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born #OTD in 1789.
He was one of the first to state and rigorously prove theorems of calculus, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He single-handedly founded complex analysis and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. He wrote approximately 800 research articles and five complete textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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