Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
John L. Heilbron

Born: March 17, 1934
Died: November 5, 2023 (aged 89)
Bio: John Lewis Heilbron was an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy.
Known for:
- The Sun in the Church (1999)
- Geometry civilized (1998)
- Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries (1979)






