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Mathematicians born on this day:
1804 : Wilhelm Weber |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1601 : Tycho Brahe |
| Wilhelm Weber | Edmund Whittaker | Tycho Brahe |
Tycho Brahe, (1546 - 1601) Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by authors to save the appearances, exist only in their imagination, for the purpose of permitting the mind to conceive the motion which the heavenly bodies trace in their courses.
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
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