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File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1851: Mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] co-founds the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1851: Mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] co-founds the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | ||
||1855: Mathematician and publisher August Leopold Crelle dies. He was the founder of ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (also known as ''Crelle's Journal''). He befriended Niels Henrik Abel and published seven of Abel's papers in the first volume of his journal. Pic. | |||
File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | ||
||1880: Benjamin Peirce dies | File:Benjamin Peirce.jpg|link=Benjamin Peirce (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician [[Benjamin Peirce (nonfiction)|Benjamin Peirce]] dies. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he became known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions". | ||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1889: American inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] shows his first motion picture. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1889: American inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] shows his first motion picture. |
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1570: Gerolamo Cardano imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.
1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
1785: Mathematician, philosopher, and phenomenological crime-fighter Thomas Reid publishes new theory of sensus communis) based on the belief that there is a Gnomon algorithm which accurately represents the external world. Reid's work will soon find applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against physical constants.
1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1851: Mechanical soldier Clock Head co-founds the town of Periphery.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1880: Mathematician Benjamin Peirce dies. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he became known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions".
1889: American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
2017: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.