Eleven Score and Seven Years Ago Today

France became "the first nation to take to the air" — The Montgolfier Baloon.
Labels: Science, The Eldest Daughter of the Church

"The superior man is catholic and no partizan. The mean man is a partizan and not catholic."
(君子周而不比、小人比而不周。) ─ Confucius, The Analects, 2.XIV, translation by James Legge.

Labels: Science, The Eldest Daughter of the Church
Omnes Sancti et Sanctæ Coreæ, orate pro nobis.
2 Comments:
I read somewhere that a French woman who witnessed this exclaimed "Oh! Now I know that in 200 years people will live forever, and I have just missed it!"
It's hard to imagine being so excited over a hot air balloon, but her comment is a reminder of what a great achievement it truly was.
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