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Friday, May 15, 2009

Athanasius Kircher


I just found out about Athanasius Kircher, a 16th-century scientist of sorts who was also an extreme polymath, like Robert Hooke or Leonardo da Vinci.  I have to read more about him, but so far I have learned that he created a clock based on the phototropism of a sunflower.  Genius.  More to come...

3 comments:

TIFFANY said...

A clock from a sunflower? That's too cool! Send me the article, will you?

Raphael Rosen said...

I will!

TaylorM said...

wow, that sounds really cool