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.
Marc Bloch
Born: July 6, 1886
Died: June 16, 1944 (aged 57)
Bio: Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist.
Known for:
- Strange Defeat
- The Historian's Craft
- Feudal society
- French Rural History
- The Royal Touch