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File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1624: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1703: Vincenzo Viviani dies ... mathematician and physicist.
File:Vincenzo Viviani.jpg|link=Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and scientist [[Vincenzo Viviani (nonfiction)|Vincenzo Viviani]] dies. In 1660, Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli conducted an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.


||1710: Georg Matthias Bose born ... famous electrical experimenter in the early days of the development of electrostatics. He is credited with being the first to develop a way of temporarily storing static charges by using an insulated conductor (called a prime conductor). His demonstrations and experiments raised the interests of the German scientific community and the public in the development of electrical research. Pic.
||1710: Georg Matthias Bose born ... famous electrical experimenter in the early days of the development of electrostatics. He is credited with being the first to develop a way of temporarily storing static charges by using an insulated conductor (called a prime conductor). His demonstrations and experiments raised the interests of the German scientific community and the public in the development of electrical research. Pic.

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