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||Christian Ludwig Gerling (d. 15 January 1864) studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen. He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. | ||Christian Ludwig Gerling (d. 15 January 1864) studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen. He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. | ||
||Willem van der Woude (b. 15 January 1876) was a Dutch mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. | ||1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. |
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1450: Polymath, cartographer, globe-builder, and crime-fighter Johannes Schöner demonstrates new type of globe which uses scrying engine techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.
1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1896: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1945: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1982: Fantasy Voronoi diagram commentators say that the upcoming Stardust mission "is certain to return interesting samples of dust from the coma of comet Wild 2."
2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft Stardust returns to Earth.