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||1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920)
||1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920)
||Eduard Schönfeld (b. December 22, 1828) was a German astronomer.


||1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
||1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

    1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

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