Raccolta completa degli scritti di Cristoforo Colombo ad illustrare e documentare la scoperta dell’America.
I diari di Colombo e le sue lettere, tradotte dallo spagnolo. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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“Raccolta completa degli scritti di Cristoforo Colombo ad illustrare e documentare la scoperta dell’America”
In questo libro, viene digitalizzato un corposo testo, stampato a Lione nel 1865, contenente la traduzione italiana degli scritti di Colombo, provenienti da varie fonti archivistiche spagnole.Liber Liber
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German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld died #OTD in 1951.
In 1916, he introduced the idea of elliptical orbits for electrons, and he also introduced additional quantum numbers which included the azimuthal quantum number and magnetic quantum number. He also introduced a dimensionless physical constant known as the fine-structure constant. This constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.
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Deutsches Leben der Gegenwart by Bekker, Briefs, Scheler, Sommerfeld, and Witkop
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American teacher and author Martha Finley was born #OTD in 1828.
She is best known for her series of children's books featuring the character Elsie Dinsmore. The Elsie Dinsmore Series spans over 28 books, the first appeared in 1867 and became a staple in American literature for young readers. Her other popular series, "Mildred Keith," also enjoyed significant success and has a similar moral and religious framework.
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"It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side."
Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to "Elsie's Womanhood," (ed. 1876)
~Martha Finley (pen name: Martha Farquharson; April 26, 1828 – January 30, 1909)
Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born #OTD in 1899.
In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he attempted to delineate the limits of language. The book is structured around a series of numbered propositions and sub-propositions, which build on each other to create a dense, almost mathematical argument. In Philosophical Investigations, he introduced the concept of how words take their meanings from their function in various forms of life and activities.
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
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American author, Howard R. Garis, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, was born #OTD in 1873.
Besides the Uncle Wiggily series, Howard R. Garis also wrote for several other children's series, including Tom Swift under the pseudonym Victor Appleton, The Bobbsey Twins under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and books in the Baseball Joe series as Lester Chadwick.
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"And half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward."
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book (1921)
~Howard Roger Garis (April 25, 1873 – November 6, 1962)
German mathematician and mathematics educator Felix Klein was born #OTD in 1849.
He is best known for his substantial contributions to group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and for connecting mathematics with other disciplines, notably physics. His notable achievements are the Erlangen Program, Complex Analysis and Algebraic Geometry, Klein Bottle, and Klein's Quartic Curve.
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"The proof that π is a transcental number will forerver mark an epoch in mathematical science. It gives the final answer to the problem of squaring the circle and settles this vexed question once for all. This problem requires to derive the number π by a finite number of elementary geometrical processes, i.e. with the use of the ruler and compasses alone."
Lectures on Mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 at Northwestern University, p. 52.
~Felix Klein
Swedish feminist writer Ellen Key died #OTD in 1926.
One of her most influential works is "The Century of the Child," first published in 1900. In this book, she projected her ideas about education and the rights of children into the 20th century, which she termed the "Century of the Child." She was also a proponent of women's rights: she believed in the importance of motherhood in society and argued that women should have more choices regarding marriage and children.
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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays (ed. 1911)
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French mathematician and physicist Siméon-Denis Poisson died #OTD in 1840.
He is known for his significant contributions to mathematical physics, particularly in the fields of mechanics, probability theory, and electricity. He made crucial advancements in understanding the behavior of fluids & the mathematical treatment of physical phenomena. Some of his most notable contributions include: Poisson distribution, potential theory, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism.
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English poet William Cowper died #OTD in 1800.
His first volume of poetry, "Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq." was published in 1782. This volume included some of his most famous poems, such as "Table Talk" and other shorter pieces that reflected his views on nature, spirituality, and humanity. His most famous work is "The Task" (1785), a six-book poem in blank verse, which was inspired by a friend who challenged him to write a poem about a sofa.
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"To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine.... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field."
Poems by William Cowper, 1 (ed. 1794)
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Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was born #OTD in 1874.
He is best known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.
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Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius died #OTD in 1744.
In 1742, Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name. His original scale was actually the reverse of what we use today: it set the boiling point of water at 0 degrees & the freezing point at 100 degrees. However, shortly after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, resulting in the 0 degrees for freezing & 100 degrees for boiling that we are familiar with.
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For the German speakers: there is an interesting book on thermometry, describing the works of Fahrenheit, Réaumur, Celsius:
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Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne was born #OTD in 1825.
He is best known for his adventure stories for young readers, his most famous work being The Coral Island (1858). This novel was particularly influential in the adventure genre and was a key predecessor to later classic adventure stories, including William Golding's Lord of the Flies. He also wrote The Young Fur Traders, The Dog Crusoe and His Master, The Lighthouse, The Lifeboat and Martin Rattler.
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"The Voice of Ocean is constantly discoursing of many interesting and stirring truths and events to those who are disposed to listen."
The Ocean and Its Wonders, Preface (p. 1), T. Nelson & Sons. 1876
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his ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston or Ballantyne the brave,
or Cooper of the wood and wave,
so be it! — And may I
and all my pirates share the grave
where these and their creations lie.
(preface to Treasure Island)
English novelist, journalist and spy Daniel Defoe died #OTD in 1731.
His most famous work, "Robinson Crusoe," was published in 1719 when Defoe was nearly 60. Following the success of "Robinson Crusoe," Defoe wrote several other notable works including "Moll Flanders" (1722), "A Journal of the Plague Year" (1722), "Colonel Jack" (1722), "Roxana" (1724), and "Captain Singleton" (1720).
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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)
~Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 – 24 April 1731)
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Enchiridion (Il Manuale di Epitteto).
Tradotto da Giacomo Leopardi, raccoglie le "lezioni" di Epitteto ai suoi scolari. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Il manuale di Epitteto
Traduzione di Giacomo Leopardi. Tratto dalle lezioni che tenne presso la sua scuola nell'Epiro e redatto, insieme con i Colloqui, dal suo discepolo Arriano di Nicomedia, il Manuale di Epitteto contiene, in forma riassunta, il tema portante dei primi:…Liber Liber
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American writer Willa Cather died #OTD in 1947.
Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), was a departure from her later work, but it was with her Prairie Trilogy — O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) — that she established her reputation as a major American novelist. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
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" Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!"
Book VII, Ch. 4. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
~Willa Cather (7 December 1873 – 24 April 1947)
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- On ne boit pas et on ne mange pas au-dessus des livres,
- On ne griffonne pas sur les livres,
- On ne sort pas de machette.
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Allemagne. Un homme armé d'une machette abattu à la bibliothèque universitaire de Mannheim
Un trentenaire, interdit d'accès à la bibliothèque universitaire, a sorti une machette et menacé le personnel.La rédaction (Le Journal de Saône et Loire)
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Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery died #OTD in 1942.
She is best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Following the success of her first book, Montgomery published a series of sequels following Anne from adolescence to adulthood and motherhood.
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"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles
~Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942)
Dark events in our Dutch and Canadian families made a Light Of Optimism very welcome !
Broadband-internet was new, our contact with Canada was vivid. Entering the main Anne3-forum plus a few smaller groups for 10 years , it was the best time on the net. *). FB killed it..
My still ongoing Kdrama-"hype" was a direct result of that 😀
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#OTD in 1852.
Wilkie Collins' first contribution to Household Words, "The traveller's story of a terribly strange bed", is an early example of crime fiction involving the (Paris) police.
The Dead Secret was first published serially in Charles Dickens' Household Words weekly magazine in 1857, with 23 installments between January 3rd and June 13th. It was published in book form by Bradbury & Evans later the same year.
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English poet Rupert Brooke died #OTD in 1915.
He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Rupert Brooke’s promising literary career was cut short when he died in April 1915 from sepsis resulting from an infected mosquito bite while he was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
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"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home."
The Soldier
~Rupert Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915)
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Problemi della scienza.
Partendo dai suoi studi in geometria, Federigo Enriques esprime la sua visione del progresso scientifico a cui nel tempo diversi scienziati potranno contribuire. Si può scaricare gratis, in pf, da:
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Problemi della scienza
Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1906 quest’opera è il “frutto di una riflessione maturatasi durante il decennio fra il 1890 e il 1900” (come afferma l’autore nella prefazione alla prima edizione.Liber Liber
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In his monumental On Justice and Rights, the Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) discussed the legal and ethical aspects of the Portuguese trade in African an...Catholic University of America Press
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German physicist Max Planck was born #OTD in 1858.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, specially as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for Planck's constant, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units (Planck units) expressed only in terms of fundamental physical constants.
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Yes, #HappyBirthday 🎂 to #physicist #MaxPlanck , who in 1900 was the founder of the #QuantumTheory - of #energy.
But a century earlier, using empirical data from 18th century #chemistry , #chemist #JohnDalton correctly postulated what could be called the #QuantumTheory of mass when he resurrected and modernized the #AncientGreek #philosophy of #Atomism attributed to #Democritus. #Histodons
French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly died #OTD in 1889.
His work depicts the ravages of passion, whether carnal (Une vieille maîtresse, 1851), filial (Un prêtre marié, 1865), political (Le Chevalier des Touches, 1864) or mystical (L'Ensorcelée, 1855). In particular, Les Diaboliques in which the unusual and the transgressive plunge the reader into an ambiguous universe, earned the author accusations of immoralism.
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"Cependant, les crimes de l'extrême civilisation sont, certainement, plus atroces que ceux de l'extrême barbarie par le fait de leur raffinement, de la corruption qu'ils supposent, et de leur degré supérieur d'intellectualité."
Les Diaboliques (1874)
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~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889)
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English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare was born (baptized in 26 April) #OTD in 1564 and died #OTD in 1616.
Some of his most famous tragedies include "Hamlet," "Othello," "King Lear," and "Macbeth". His most known comedies, such as "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," "As You Like It," and "Twelfth Night." Shakespeare's histories—such as "Richard III," "Henry V," and "Julius Caesar"—dive into the lives of historical figures and the political machinations of his time.
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts..."
Jaques in As You Like It
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
Hamlet, Act III, scene i.
"Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.
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~William Shakespeare
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Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated
Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies. via @JSTOR_Daily
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Happy #EarthDay!
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American novelist Ellen Glasgow was born #OTD in 1873.
Glasgow made significant contributions to Southern literature through her exploration of social issues, changing gender roles, and the decline of the aristocratic South. Ellen Glasgow received significant recognition during her lifetime, including the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1942 for "In This Our Life."
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"The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living."
Barren Ground (1925)
~Ellen Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945)
Died #OTD in 1989. Emilio Segrè was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, & the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Together with Glenn T. Seaborg, he discovered technetium-99m—the first artificially produced element (1937). Tc99m is first element found to have no stable isotopes, filling a missing spot on the periodic table.
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What a career, and contribution to science.
I've filled an empty spot at the table occasionally, but mostly for supper. 🙁
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes died #OTD in 1616.
Much of his life was spent in relative poverty and obscurity, which led to many of his early works being lost. His literary career is noted for several works, although "Don Quijote" remains his most celebrated:
La Galatea (1585), Don Quijote, Part I (1605), Novelas Ejemplares (1613), Don Quijote, Part II (1615),
Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617).
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"See to it also that, reading your story, the melancholic is moved to laughter, the laugher increases it, the simple does not get angry, the discreet admires the invention, the serious does not despise it, nor the prudent fails to praise it."
Prólogo del primer libro. Primera parte: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1605)
~Miguel de Cervantes (29 de septiembre de 1547, 22 de abril de 1616)
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L'origine della famiglia, della proprietà privata e dello stato.
Trattato sul materialismo storico di Friedrich Engels pubblicato nel 1884, si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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L’origine della famiglia della proprietà privata e dello stato
L'origine della famiglia, la proprietà privata e lo Stato: alla luce delle ricerche di Lewis H. Morgan è il titolo completo di un trattato sul materialismo storico scritto da Friedrich Engels e pubblicato nel 1884.Liber Liber
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#OTD in 1849.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and fellow members of the literary Petrashevsky Circle in Russia are arrested for expressing their progressive views. Sentenced to death on November 16 and facing a firing squad on December 23, he and some others are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia. While differing in political views, most of members of the Petrashevsky Circle were opponents of the tsarist autocracy and Russian serfdom.
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