Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)
Andrew Gordon (b. 15 June 1712(N.S 26 June), at Cofforach in Forfarshire, Scotland; d. 22 August 1751(N.S 2 September), at Erfurt, in Saxony) was a Scottish Benedictine monk, physicist, and inventor. He made the first electric motor.
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English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)
“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to enquire—in the midst of myriads of the living & the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)