Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Otto E. Neugebauer

Born: May 26, 1899
Died: February 19, 1990 (aged 90)
Bio: Otto Eduard Neugebauer was an Austrian American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages.
Known for:
- The exact sciences in antiquity (1952)
- A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (1975)
- Astronomy and history (1983)
- Greek horoscopes (1959)
- Egyptian planetary texts (1942)