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  1. Der Tag des Radiergummis findet jährlich am 15.April statt.

    Am Tag des #Radiergummis wird die #Erfindung des Radiergummis, im Jahre 1770 durch den #Briten #EdwardNairne, gefeiert. Der #Naturforscher #JosephPriestley machte Nairnes #Entdeckung im selben Jahr öffentlich und galt deshalb lang als Erfinder des Radeirgummis.
    welcher-tag-ist-heute.org/feie

    #Feiertag

  2. A quotation from James Currie

    We were not aware that there existed in the midst of our own Country, and in the present day, a spirit of fanaticism, so base, so wicked & so bloody, as to brake forth into a frenzy of unprovoked violence, not only against the most respectable characters, but against knowledge & science themselves.

    James Currie (1756-1805) Scottish physician, biographer
    Letter (1791-07) to Joseph Priestley for the Liverpool Dissenters (draft)

    More about this quote: wist.info/currie-james/80394/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamescurrie #josephpriestley #antiscience #fanaticism #knowledge #mob #science

  3. Busy last few months... I've been #josephpriestley most of the Summer as part of the 250th anniversary of the discovery of Oxygen! #scicomm #oxygen #calne #wiltshire #science