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.
Henri de Mondeville

Born: 1260
Died: 1320 (aged 60)
Bio: Henri de Mondeville, a medieval Frenchman, has been claimed as the "Father of French Surgery". There is some doubt about his birthplace, but it was most likely to have been either the village of Mandeville or Émondeville, both in Normandy.