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||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785) | ||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785) | ||
File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. | File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. His planetary tables, into which he will introduce corrections for mutual perturbations, will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century. | ||
||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825) | ||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825) | ||
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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. His planetary tables, into which he will introduce corrections for mutual perturbations, will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1957: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.