| May 27 |
| 1618 |
| Kepler finishes Harmony of the World. |
| 1630 |
| Descartes
writes to Mersenne, “to comprehend is to embrace thought, to know
a thing it is enough to touch it with the thought”. Later the same day, Descartes writes to Mersenne, “God was free to leave the world uncreated”. |
| 1787 |
| Goethe writes, “I think it is true that humanism will triumph at last; only I fear that the world will at the same time be a vast hospital, where each will be his fellow man’s humane sick-nurse.” |
| 1958 |
| Nelly Sachs writes to Paul Celan, “my disquiet is great”. |
| 1965 |
Mike Schertzer appears...
and tries, for the first time, |
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