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 Summerson

Born: November 25, 1904
Died: November 10, 1992 (aged 87)
Bio: Sir John Newenham Summerson was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.
Known for:
- The Classical Language of Architecture (1963)
- Georgian London (1945)
- Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (1950)
- El Lenguaje Clasico de la Arquitectura (1974)
- The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (1986)
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