Quote of the day
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Jacob Bigelow

Born: February 27, 1787
Died: January 10, 1879 (aged 91)
Bio: Jacob Bigelow was an American physician and botanist. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow.
Known for:
- American medical botany (1817)
- Elements of technology
- A treatise on the materia medica