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||1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588) | ||1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588). No pic. | ||
||1743 | File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design. | ||
||1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814) | ||1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814) | ||
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1743: Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).