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 Pirenne
Born: December 23, 1862
Died: October 25, 1935 (aged 72)
Bio: Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.
Known for:
- Mohammed and Charlemagne
- Medieval cities (1925)
- A History Of Europe
- Mahomet et Charlemagne