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||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. | ||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. | ||
||1777: Louis Poinsot born ... mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple. Pic. | |||
||1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth born ... 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. | ||1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth born ... 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. | ||
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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.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Spiral 2 reveals anonymous elegy for computer scientist Peter Naur.