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||1533: Michael Stifel predicted that on this date a chariot would touch down on a nearby hilltop and conduct him and his followers to heaven. Followers of the mathematical mystic quit their jobs, but as the day approached they became skeptical. Stifel convinced the local constabulary to lock him in jail on the appointed date where he would be safe from his ruined, irate parishioners.
||1704: Physician Jean-Baptiste Denys dies.  He performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He was the personal physician to King Louis XIV. Pic, no birth date.
||1704: Physician Jean-Baptiste Denys dies.  He performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He was the personal physician to King Louis XIV. Pic, no birth date.


||1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1781)
||1716: Giovanni Battista Beccaria born ... physicist and academic.
 
||1830: George Brayton born ... mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.
 
||1842: Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.


||George Brayton (b. October 3, 1830) was born in Rhode Island, son of William H. and Minerva (Bailey) Brayton. He was an American mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.  
||1846: Planet Uranus prediction published. Sir John Herschel published John Couch Adams' prediction of the existence of the planet Uranus. This provoked a priority controversy as the planet had already been found on September 23, 1846, based on Le Verrier's calculations.  


||1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
||1849: American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.


||Karl Hermann Struve (b. October 3, 1854) was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Herman Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Unlike other astronomers of the Struve family, Herman spent most of his career in Germany. Continuing the family tradition, Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.
||1854: Karl Hermann Struve born ... astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as German Ottovich Struve (Герман Оттович Струве) or German Ottonovich Struve (Герман Оттонович Струве). Herman Struve was a part of the famous group of astronomers from the Struve family, which also included his grandfather Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, father Otto Wilhelm von Struve, brother Ludwig Struve and nephew Otto Struve. Unlike other astronomers of the Struve family, Herman spent most of his career in Germany. Continuing the family tradition, Struve's research was focused on determining the positions of stellar objects. He was particularly known for his work on satellites of planets of the Solar System and development of the intersatellite method of correcting their orbital position. The mathematical Struve function is named after him. Pic.


||Stanisław Zaremba (b. 3 October 1863) was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.
||1863: Stanisław Zaremba born ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.


||1867 – Elias Howe, American engineer, invented the sewing machine (b. 1819)
||1867: Elias Howe dies ... engineer, invented the sewing machine.


Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies.  As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies.  As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

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  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

  • 1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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