Quote of the day
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Fracastorius
Died: August 6, 1553
Bio: Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation.







