5 September

Born in 1906 – Ralston Crawford, American painter and photographer

Above: Bow and Rope, 1972

Also, born in 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian.

I learn more from the anatomy of an ant or a blade of grass...than from all the books which have been written since the beginning of time. This is so, since I have begun...to read the book of God...the model according to which I correct the human books which have been copied badly and arbitrarily and without attention to the things that are written in the original book of the Universe.

Previously on September 5, Caspar David Friedrich and Werner Herzog.