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||1529: Michael Neander born ... mathematician and astronomer | ||1529: Michael Neander born ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||
File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. | File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. | ||
||1715: William Watson born ... physician, physicist, and botanist | ||1715: William Watson born ... physician, physicist, and botanist. Pic. | ||
||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
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File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
||1832: | ||1832: Wilhelm Fiedler born ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry. Pic. | ||
||1834: Lucien de la Rive born ... physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity. | ||1834: Lucien de la Rive born ... physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity. | ||
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1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom spontaneously develop and previously unknown shade of red after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during a high-energy literature experiment.
