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||Johann Georg Büsch (b. January 3, 1728) was a German mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. | ||Johann Georg Büsch (b. January 3, 1728) was a German mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. | ||
|| | ||Charles Piazzi Smyth (b. 3 January 1819) was an English astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pic. | ||
||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. | ||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. | ||
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.