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...
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A clock from a sunflower? That's too cool! Send me the article, will you?
I will!
wow, that sounds really cool
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