Jonathan Swift Quotes:
Ocupation: Pamphleteer
Life: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Birthday: November 30
Death: October 19
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
source: Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)
topic: Summer, War, Science, Sunbeams, Cucumbers, Summer Rain, Gulliver
