1 July

Born in 1892, Jean Lurçat, French artist.

Above: Métamorphose de la Nature, 1950

Also, born in 1646, German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Only geometry can hand us the thread which will lead us through the labyrinth of the continuum’s composition: the maximum and the minimum, the infinitesimal and the infinite. And no one will arrive at a truly solid metaphysic except he who has passed through this labyrinth.

Previously on July 1, Willard Metcalf and George Sand.