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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1599: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade. | ||
||1600: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1621: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī) dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. He is considered one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy. In later years he became one of the teachers of Mulla Sadra. Pic: tapestry? | ||1621: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī) dies ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. He is considered one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy. In later years he became one of the teachers of Mulla Sadra. Pic: tapestry? | ||
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||1768: Pietro Abbati Marescotti born ... mathematician. No pics online. | ||1768: Pietro Abbati Marescotti born ... mathematician. No pics online. | ||
||1804: Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||1804: Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. Pic. | ||
||1804: Zerah Colburn born ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||1804: Zerah Colburn born ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||
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||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||
||1858: Carl Auer von Welsbach born ... scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products. He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the flint used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb. | ||1858: Carl Auer von Welsbach born ... scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products. He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the flint used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb. Pic. | ||
||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born ... chemist | ||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born ... chemist. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil. | ||
||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 15:10, 8 March 2019
1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.