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#OTD in 1822.
Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
The difference engine is based on the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Some of the most common mathematical functions are built from logarithmic & trigonometric functions, which can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful tables.
#OTD in 1893.
The Shelley Memorial is inaugurated at University College, Oxford, from which the poet was expelled in 1811. It is designed by Basil Champneys, with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford. Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there.
Shelley Memorial all washed up?
By Josh Pull via @Cherwell
https://www.cherwell.org/2005/04/22/shelley-memorial-all-washed-up/
“As recordações são os únicos belos astros que adornam a noite da velhice.”
Portuguese writer, poet, translator, and educator António Feliciano de Castilho died #OTD in 1875.
Castilho became a leading figure in the Portuguese Romantic movement. He was a prolific translator and his translations included works by Goethe, Lamartine, and Byron, among others. He also developed a method for teaching reading to the blind.
"Our national epic has yet to be written."
#OTD in 1904.
Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday" in honour of the novel's main character Leopold Bloom.
Happy Bloomsday Day!
Ulysses is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
Italian mathematician, astronomer and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born #OTD in 1625.
His observations & calculations helped to confirm & refine Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. He formulated Cassini’s Law, describing the rotational behavior of the Moon, which was crucial for understanding the Moon's synchronous rotation with the Earth. He was involved in measuring the meridian arc of Paris, contributing to the accurate determination of the shape of the Earth.
French novelist, memoirist and journalist George Sand died #OTD in 1876.
Sand's writing combines elements of Romanticism and early Realism, with rich descriptions, strong emotions, and detailed character studies. Her novels often critique societal norms, particularly the limitations placed on women and the injustices faced by the lower classes.
Books by George Sand at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason."
The Age of Reason (1794)
Thomas Paine died #OTD in 1809.
He had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.
Books by Thomas Paine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/91
British mathematician Charlotte Scott was born #OTD in 1858.
Her research focused on algebraic geometry, a field dealing with solutions to systems of polynomial equations. Notable works include her paper on binary forms and her research on the properties of algebraic curves. She co-authored "An Introductory Account of Certain Modern Ideas and Methods in Plane Analytical Geometry," which became a widely used textbook. She was awarded an honorary degree by the UPenn in 1906.
From the cat's perspective it's all useless junk and must go.
#writingcommmunity #amwriting #cat #cats #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #writing #books #book
"Destiny and history are untidy."
Nightwood (1936)
American writer, journalist, and artist Djuna Barnes died #OTD in 1982.
"Ryder" was Barnes's first novel, a semi-autobiographical and highly experimental work. "Nightwood" is widely regarded as Barnes's masterpiece. The novel is a dense, poetic exploration of love, identity, and despair, set in the bohemian world of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.
Books by Djuna Barnes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51179
"The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire."
A Glastonbury Romance
English novelist John Cowper Powys died #OTD in 1963.
He appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels.
"To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."
Opening line.
#OTD in 1872.
Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies").
A movie (1929) was made based on this book, directed by Harry Lachman and starring Marguerite Allan, Nigel Barrie and Wilfred Shine.
Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu died #OTD in 1889.
Eminescu's early poetry was influenced by Romanian folklore and classical literature. He began publishing poems in the late 1860s and quickly gained recognition for his talent. His studies in Vienna and Berlin brought him into contact with German romantic poets and philosophers, such as Goethe, Schiller, and Kant.
Books by Mihai Eminescu at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37680
Scottish poet and writer Thomas Campbell died #OTD in 1844.
In 1799 he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs— "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in 1801, The Battle of the Baltic, but was no less at home in delicate lyrics such as "At Love's Beginning".
Books by Thomas Campbell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7520
Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist Bertha, baroness von Suttner was born #OTD in 1843.
Bertha's most famous work, "Die Waffen nieder!", was published in 1889. The novel depicted the horrors of war through the eyes of its protagonist, Martha von Tilling. Bertha's correspondence with Alfred Nobel influenced his decision to establish the Nobel Peace Prize. She is often credited with inspiring him to include a peace prize in his will.
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
Ch. 1 : The Love-Light - The Little Minister (1891)
Scottish Playwright and Novelist J.M. Barrie died #OTD in 1937.
Books by J:M. Barrie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/10
"Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope."
English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens died #OTD in 1870.
Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years; wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles; lectured and performed readings extensively; was an indefatigable letter writer; and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
#OTD in 1864.
Henrik Ibsen arrives in Rome in a self-imposed exile from Norway that will last for 27 years.
Ibsen felt frustrated with the cultural and political climate in Norway. He was disillusioned with the lack of support for the arts and the provincialism he perceived in Norwegian society. He also faced financial difficulties and had trouble making a living through his writing in Norway.
Books by Henrik Ibsen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/861
#OTD in 1790.
John Barry's Philadelphia Spelling Book Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New becomes the first American book copyrighted.
John Barry was a schoolmaster of the Free School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. While no complete copy of the book exists today, the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress has the printed title page and two pages of text that Barry originally deposited.
https://www.copyright.gov/history/copyright-exhibit/beginnings/
French poet and novelist Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was born #OTD in 1786.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore published her first book of poetry, "Élégies et romances," in 1819. She was highly regarded by her contemporaries, including Victor Hugo and Alphonse de Lamartine. Her work influenced later poets, including Paul Verlaine and the Symbolists, who admired her emotional expressiveness and musicality.
Books by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5436
"You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many."
#OTD in 1914.
The first issue (of two) appears of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis. It includes Ford Madox Hueffer's "The Saddest Story", a preliminary version of The Good Soldier.
After the onset of World War I the publishers asked Ford for a new title. Ford suggested (sarcastically) The Good Soldier, and the name stuck.
The Good Soldier at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2775
#OTD in 1903.
Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild begins serial publication in the Saturday Evening Post.
London wrote a short story about a dog named Bâtard who, at the end of the story, kills his master. London's biographer, Earle Labor, says that London then began work on The Call of the Wild to "redeem the species" from his dark characterization of dogs in "Bâtard".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
The Call of the Wild at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/215
French writer Gustave Aimard died #OTD in 1883.
Abandoned by his parents, at the age of 9 he ran away from the home of his adoptive family, the Gloux, and signed on as a ship's boy. He landed in Patagonia, then headed for North America, where he led an adventurous life, notably as a gold prospector and trapper. His experiences in Mexico, the United States, and South America provided rich material for his later writing.
Books Gustave Aimard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5146
American librarian Herbert Putnam died #OTD in 1955.
Putnam's career in library administration began when he became the librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum in 1884. His success in Minneapolis led to his appointment as the librarian of the Boston Public Library in 1895. In 1899, Herbert Putnam was appointed the eighth Librarian of Congress, a position he held for 40 years until his retirement in 1939.