Thursday 17 May 2012, 07:15:22

Does time loop?
17 May 1510: Sandro Botticelli, Italian Renaissance architect, dies in Florence at age 64 or 65.
17 May 1727: Mathematics genius Euler arrives in St. Petersburg to take up a post at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences.
17 May 1749: Edward Jenner, English doctor, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, is born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
17 May 1836: Norman Lockyer, English scientist and astronomer, is born in Rugby, Warwickshire.
17 May 1902: In an ancient shipwreck Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais finds an astronomical calculator dating from the 2nd century BC, now famously known as the Antikythera mechanism.
You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~ James A. Froude (1818-1894)
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4umi user made info         Painting by Raphael, La Scuola di Atene or The School of Athens, 1509-1511, fresco on the wall in the Palazzo Apostolico in the Vatican, 7.7×5.0 m.