Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Garrett P. Serviss
Born: March 24, 1851
Died: May 25, 1929 (aged 78)
Bio: Garrett Putnam Serviss was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He took a law degree at Columbia University but never worked as an attorney.
Known for:
- Edison's Conquest of Mars
- A Columbus of Space (1894)
- Curiosities of the Sky (1909)
- The Second Deluge (1912)
- The Moon Maiden