Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Duncan Farquharson Gregory
Born: April 13, 1813
Died: February 23, 1844 (aged 30)
Bio: Duncan Farquharson Gregory, a Scottish mathematician, was the youngest son of James Gregory and Isabella Macleod.