A fairly nondescript day, you might think, 18 September. A vacant yet short-tempered fellow called Joseph of Cupertino, Italy, levitated seventy times in the seventeenth century and was first Inquisitioned and then raised to sainthood. This is his day.
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| Leonhard Euler's fine turban and formula |
It is also the day Leonhard Euler died in 1783.
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| This was discussed, but not by that Foucault. |
Jean-Baptiste-Leon Foucault the physicist was born the same day in 1819.
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| Joseph Locke by mslrman, on Flickr. |
Then it was Joseph Locke's turn to pass on (1860) - he was a civil engineer.
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| Greta Garbo by Carmen Luna |
Greta Garbo arrived in 1905.
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| John Cockcroft by Rodrigo Moynihan. |
Nobel-winning physicist John Cockcroft died on 18 September 1967.
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| Jimi Hendrix by missperple |
Then Jimi Hendrix departed this earthly vale of tears three years later.
So now you know.
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