March 19, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 19, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
Johannes Goedaert, a Dutch naturalist and artist, was baptized Mar. 19, 1617; his date of birth is unknown. In 1662, Goedaert published the first of three volumes that would be collectively titled Metamorphosis et historia naturalis insectorum; the last volume would... March 18, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 18, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
Philippe de La Hire, a French astronomer and mathematician, was born Mar. 18, 1640. In 1705, La Hire published two large celestial planispheres, or circular maps of the stars and constellations. The circumstances behind these maps are quite obscure. We don’t know how... March 16, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 15, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
French animalier Rosa Bonheur, born March 16, 1822, not only painted a menagerie’s worth of farm and wild animals over the long course of her celebrated career, but also kept a large number of domesticated “boarders,” as she liked to call them, at her home on the edge... March 15, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 15, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
Andrea Argoli, an Italian astronomer, was born Mar. 15, 1570 (or perhaps 1568). All of the available biographies pretty much agree on the skimpy details of Argoli’s life – he was an avid astrologer, teaching at the Sapienza in Rome until 1627, when he ran... March 14, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 14, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
Daines Barrington, an English lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist, died Mar. 14, 1800; his birthdate was not recorded. If Barrington is known at all, it is because he was the recipient of some 66 letters from the noted naturalist Gilbert White, letters than ended up in... March 13, 2019
by Bill Ashworth | Mar 13, 2019 | Scientist of the Day
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, was born Mar. 13, 1741. He is best known to the modern public as the enlightened ruler who commissioned Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio in 1781, and who then complained to Mozart (if the film Amadeus (1984) be our guide)... 
