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||1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (d. 1499) | ||1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (d. 1499) | ||
|| | ||Sir Thomas Browne (b. 19 October 1605) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||
|| | ||Sir Thomas Browne (d. 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||
||1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752) | ||1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752) | ||
Revision as of 16:49, 12 April 2018
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.