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.
John Fortescue
Born: 1394
Died: 1476 (aged 82)
Bio: Sir John Fortescue was the Chief Justice of the King's Bench of England and the author of De laudibus legum Angliæ, an influential treatise on English law.
Known for:
- The Governance of England
- De laudibus legum Angliæ
- A history of the British army
- History of the 17th Lancers
- Corr.King George Vl6