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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | ||
||1544 – William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603) | |||
File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1686: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale. | File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1686: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale. | ||
File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1734: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century. | File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1734: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century. | ||
||1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793) | |||
||1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866) | |||
||1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) | |||
||1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. | |||
||1868 – Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956) | |||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by running away. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by running away. | ||
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File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for rocket propulsion. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for rocket propulsion. | ||
||1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used for [[crimes against mathematical constants]], says [[John Brunner]]. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used for [[crimes against mathematical constants]], says [[John Brunner]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:18, 11 August 2017
1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.
1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1891: Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1944: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) reveals Nazi efforts to use Gnomon algorithm functions for rocket propulsion.
1963: Plutonium used for crimes against mathematical constants, says John Brunner.