Quote of the day
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Giorgio de Santillana
Born: May 30, 1902
Died: June 8, 1974 (aged 72)
Bio: Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, and Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- Hamlet's Mill (1969)
- The crime of Galileo (1955)
- The origins of scientific thought (1961)