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Mathematicians born on this day:
1535 : Giambattista della Porta |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1922 : Fritz (Friedrich) Bützberger |
| Giambattista della Porta | Ambrose Rogers | Andrzej Mostowski |
Giambattista della Porta (1535 - 1615)
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things ... so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
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