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||1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1617: Elias Ashmole born ... astrologer and politician. | ||1617: Elias Ashmole born ... astrologer and politician. Pic. | ||
||1691: Adrien Auzout dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic: book cover. | ||1691: Adrien Auzout dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic: book cover. | ||
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||1734: Franz Mesmer born ... physician and astrologer. Pic. | ||1734: Franz Mesmer born ... physician and astrologer. Pic. | ||
||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. | ||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. He made the first successful measurement of a stellar parallax, though not to the first publication thereof. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Manuel+John+Johnson | ||
||1829: Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. | ||1829: Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. | ||
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1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.