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||1743: Carl Peter Thunberg born ... botanist, entomologist, and psychologist. | ||1743: Carl Peter Thunberg born ... botanist, entomologist, and psychologist. | ||
File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer, mathematician, and [[APTO]] librarian [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] publishes his landmark ''History and Taxonomy of the Gnomon Algorithm Functions and Their Applications''. Much of this text will be publicly burned by [[Les Empyrées]] during the later stages of the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]. | |||
||1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. | ||1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. |
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1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1788: Astronomer, mathematician, and APTO librarian Jean Sylvain Bailly publishes his landmark History and Taxonomy of the Gnomon Algorithm Functions and Their Applications. Much of this text will be publicly burned by Les Empyrées during the later stages of the French Revolution.
1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1965: Math photographer Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.
2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.
2014: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
2018: Blue Foliage voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.