Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Frank Adcock
Born: April 15, 1886
Died: February 22, 1968 (aged 81)
Bio: Sir Frank Ezra Adcock was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951.
Known for:
- The Greek and Macedonian art of war (1957)
- Diplomacy in ancient Greece
- The Roman art of war under the republic (1940)
- Caesar as Man of Letters (1956)
- Roman Political Ideas and Practice (1959)
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