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||1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825) | ||1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825) | ||
||Boris Mikhailovich Hessen (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ге́ссен), also Gessen (August 16, 1893, Elisavetgrad – December 20, 1936, Moscow),[1] was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science. | |||
||1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811) | ||1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811) | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1706: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates his new mechanical calculator, which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.