March 25

Evliya Çelebi, the Ottoman traveler whose ten-volume Seyahatname chronicled the seventeenth-century Islamic world, was born in Istanbul.

Dipa Ma (Nani Bala Barua), the Theravada meditation master who taught many founders of the American insight-meditation movement, was born on this day in 1911.

Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, observing Saturn through a telescope of his own making, discovered its large moon Titan, the first satellite of Saturn to be found.