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||Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius (b. February 27, 1539), was a Flemish-born scholar, printer and bookseller, working at Antwerp and later at Leiden. For the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. Pic. | |||
||1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671) | ||1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671) | ||
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1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes Fighting defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.
1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.