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File:Saturnus.jpg|link=Saturnalia (nonfiction)|497 BC: The first [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia festival]] celebrated in ancient Rome. | File:Saturnus.jpg|link=Saturnalia (nonfiction)|497 BC: The first [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia festival]] celebrated in ancient Rome. | ||
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|951: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] invents new form of [[scrying engine]]. | File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|951: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] invents new form of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg | File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1706: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's ''Principia Mathematica''. | ||
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time. | File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time. | ||
Revision as of 12:55, 16 December 2016
500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.
951: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi invents new form of scrying engine.
1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.
2004: HAL 9000 blames "inherent perversity of Saturnalia" for death of crew and passengers.
1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (d. 1998)