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.
Gil Vicente
Born: 1465
Died: 1536 (aged 71)
Bio: Gil Vicente, called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays.
Known for:
- O Velho da Horta
- Auto da Índia
- The boat plays
- Three discovery plays
- Four plays of Gil Vicente