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.
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)